Oh! Susanna
by Stephen Foster
Free sheet music library / Oh! Susanna
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- Key
- C major
- Tempo
- ♩ = 120
- Time
- 4/4
- Bars
- 9
- Level
- Easy · Difficulty 4 of 10
- Genre
- Folk songs
- Origin
- United States
- Composer
- Stephen Foster (1826–1864)
About this piece
A song written by Stephen Foster in 1847 and made famous in the California gold rush the next year. The tune uses only the notes of a five-note scale.
Why it is free to use
Stephen Foster died in 1864, more than 70 years ago, and the piece dates from about 1848. This encoding is our own; no published edition was copied.
About this score
This score of Oh! Susanna is a short excerpt (the opening, or the first verse of the song), not the whole piece. It was written by SampLab Pro from the public-domain music. It is not copied from any printed edition, MIDI file or recording. We place our score in the public domain (CC0 1.0): anyone may copy, change, share and use it, including commercially, without asking. The left hand is our own simple accompaniment, made from the chords of the tune.