Oh! Susanna

by:

Stephen Foster

genres:

Folk

Sheet music cover for Oh! Susanna (1848), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Numbers are frets and 0 is an open string. Standard tuning (E A D G B E). Each group of six lines is one system; read left to right, one column at a time. This is a multi-section arrangement of the public-domain melody.

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[Verse]
e|--------0---3---|3---0-------0---|--------0-------|----------------|
B|1---1-----------|--------1-------|3---3-------3---|1---------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Verse repeated]
e|--------0---3---|3---0-------0---|--------0-------|----------------|
B|1---1-----------|--------1-------|3---3-------3---|1---------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Chorus]
e|3---3-----------|0-------0-------|--------0-------|----------------|
B|--------3---3---|--------1-------|3---3-------1---|1---------------|
G|----0-------0---|------------2---|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Final phrase]
e|3---3-----------|0-------0-------|--------0-------|0---------------|
B|--------3---3---|--------1-------|3---3-------1---|1---------------|
G|----0-------0---|------------2---|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|