Word: susanna
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...Susanna" v. "Happy Days...
Whether or not he is elected 33rd President of the U. S., squinty-smiling Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas was last week indelibly imprinted upon his countrymen's memory as The Man Who revived the tune Oh! Susanna as a national theme song. In the course of six days at Cleveland, bands at the Republican National Convention played Oh! Susanna 1,800 times by official count. Into a class with The Sidewalks of New York and California, Here I Come passed the old banjo ballad written by Stephen Foster nearly 100 years ago and first sung into...
...tune of Three Blind Mice became paired with Oh! Susanna as a major overtone of 1936 only by accident. The rhythm of Senator Steiwer's keynote phrase, "Three long years!" automatically evoked the old nursery jingle. Prompt to answer the Republican parody were Democratic versions recalling the twelve long years of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. But Oh! Susanna was not revived by accident. Governor Landon's efficient handlers had searched carefully for a tune to set him to, a tune that could surely be plugged into another Banana Song. After discarding a "We Want Landon" chant...
...trio of crooners began to sing Oh! Susanna, but the words were...
...Original words: I came from Alabama Wid my banjo on my knee, I'm g'wan 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, Oh, don't you cry for me, I've come from Alabama, Wid my banjo on my knee...