'Oh! Suzanna' By Margo on Banjo 🪕

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- Margo on banjo plays Stephen Foster's song. Shetland sheep also enjoy the music! 🐏🐑
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"Oh! Susanna" is a folk song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864), first published in 1848. It is among the most popular American songs ever written. In 1846, Stephen Foster moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became a bookkeeper with his brother's steamship company. While in Cincinnati, Foster wrote "Oh! Susanna", possibly for his men's social club.

🍧The song was first performed by a local quintet at a concert in Andrews' Eagle Ice Cream Saloon in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Sept. 11, 1847. It was first published by W. C. Peters & Co. in Cincinnati in 1848. Blackface minstrel troupes performed the work, and, as was common at the time, many registered the song for copyright under their own names. As a result, it was copyrighted and published at least 21 times from Feb. 25, 1848, through Feb. 14, 1851.

Foster earned just $100 ($2,774 in 2016 dollars) for the song, but its popularity led the publishing firm Firth, Pond & Company to offer him a royalty rate of 2 cents per copy of sheet music sold, convincing him to become the first fully professional songwriter in the United States...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!_Susanna