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QUOTATION:Oh! Susanna, do not cry for me;
I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee.
ATTRIBUTION:Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864), U.S. songwriter. “Oh! Susanna,” W.C. Peters & Co. (1848).

Music composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937); the original words are written in dialect: “wid my banjo on my knee.”
 
 
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