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Stephen Collins Foster, conhecido como o "pai da música americana" foi um preeminente compositor estadunidense do século XIX. Suas canções, incluindo "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Black Joe", "Beautiful Dreamer" e "Old Folks at Home" permanecem populares mais de 150 anos depois de sua composição. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. Julho 1826 – 13. Janeiro 1864
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“Oh, Susanna, don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama,
With my banjo on my knee.”

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Oh! Susanna, W.C. Peters & Co. (1848).
Contexto: 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.

“Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe."”

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Old Black Joe, Firth, Pond & Co. (1860).

“All up and down the whole creation,
Sadly I roam,
Still longing for the old plantation,
And for the old folks at home.”

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Old Folks at Home

“The head must bow, and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the darkey may go;
A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
In the field where the sugar-canes grow.
A few more days for to tote the weary load,—
No matter, 't will never be light;
A few more days till we totter on the road:—
Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!”

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My Old Kentucky Home. As quoted at Anthology of American Poetry, by George Gesner, (1983).

“The day goes by like a shadow o’er the heart,
With sorrow where all was delight;
The time has come when the darkies have to part:
Then my old Kentucky home, good night!”

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My Old Kentucky Home. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“All the world is sad and dreary,
Everywhere I roam.”

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As quoted at Family Book of Best Loved Poems, by David L. George, (1952)
Old Folks at Home

“Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away.”

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Beautiful Dreamer, Firth, Pond & Co. (1862).

“Sadly I roam,
Still longing for de old plantation,
And for de old folks at home.”

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Old Folks at Home