This is one of the earliest known copies of the Peters edition (according to Saunders and Root, The Music of Stephen C. Foster: A Critical Edition, vol.1, p. 461). The title is simply "Susanna."

Title: Songs of the Sable Harmonists. Susanna.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Written and Composed by S[tephen] C[ollins] Foster.
Publication: Baltimore; G. Willig, Jr., 197 Baltimore St., 1848.: , .
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice (solo and satb chorus)
First Line: I come from Alabama with my Banjo on my knee
First Line of Chorus: Oh! Susanna do not cry for me
Plate Number: 2157
Subject: African Americans
Subject: Caricatures
Subject: Courtship & love
Subject: Homecomings
Subject: Accidents
Subject: Death
Subject: Dreaming
Call No.: Box: 068 Item: 126

SUSANNA
Written and Composed by S.C. Foster

I come from Alabama with my Banjo on my knee
I's gwine to Lou'siana, My true lub for to see,
It rain'd all night de day I left, De wedder it was dry;
The sun so hot I froze to def-- Susanna, dont you cry.

CHORUS
Oh! Susanna, do not cry for me,
I come from Alabama, Wid my Banjo on my knee.

I jump'd aboard the telegraph and trabbled down de ribber,
De lectrick fluid magnified, and kill'd five hundred Nigga.
De bulgine bust and de hoss ran off, I really thought I'd die;
I shut my eyes to hold my bref-- Susanna, dont you cry.

(CHORUS)

I had a dream de udder night, when ebry ting was still;
I thought I saw Susanna dear, a coming down de hill,
De buckweat[sic] cake was in her mouf, de tear was in her eye,
I says, I'se coming from de souf,-- Susanna, dont you cry.

(CHORUS)

~Masato