Stephen Collins Foster è stato un compositore statunitense.
Conosciuto come "il padre della musica americana", fu il più prominente compositore e scrittore di canzoni del XIX secolo negli Stati Uniti. Le sue canzoni, fra cui la celeberrima, Oh! Susanna, rimangono conosciute e popolari in tutto il mondo dopo più di 150 anni dalla loro composizione. Wikipedia
“Oh, Susanna, don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama,
With my banjo on my knee.”
Oh! Susanna, W.C. Peters & Co. (1848).
Contesto: Oh I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee,
I'm going to Louisiana, my true love for to see
It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death; Susanna, don't you cry.
Oh, Susanna, don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama,
With my banjo on my knee.
My Old Kentucky Home. As quoted at Anthology of American Poetry, by George Gesner, (1983).
My Old Kentucky Home. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“All the world is sad and dreary,
Everywhere I roam.”
As quoted at Family Book of Best Loved Poems, by David L. George, (1952)
Old Folks at Home
