075 - Oh, Susanna

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Another song from the time when the Gold Rush of 1849 happens was "Oh, Susanna". Stan Hugill says, is that this song never been in print, with exception of Miss Colcord's fragmentary version listed in her book as a fo'c'sle song.

So this what Joanna C. Colcord gives us in her book (Songs of American Sailormen" - 1938, in the "Roll & Go" - 1924, in both books we can find, the same amount of verses):
"It was singular that with all the vast pride and delight of the sailor in his ship, so few songs were sung in celebration of the qualities of individual vessels. There was about California clipper "Sovereign of the Seas", which went to the same tune as the 'forty-niners' song"...
"Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 116).



Oh, Susanna



Holystone the cabin,
And get down on your knees,
None of your limejuice touches,
In the Sovereign of the Seas!


   Oh, Susanna,
   Darling, take your ease,
   For we have beat the clipper fleet,
   The Sovereign of the Seas!