Susanna Gal- Dad Blackard's Moonshiners (VA) 1927
[From Victor recording 21130 recorded at Bristol session August 3, 1927 by Dad Blackard's Moonshiners. The Blackard and Shelor families were well known singing families in the early 1900s. Cecil Sharp recorded Blackard who was a postman, in 1918 and was surprised to find a piano at his house- that was in tune! Blackard's group, Dad Blackard's Moonshiners, formed in Meadows of Dan, Virginia in the 1920s. "Susanna Gal" does have the somewhat similar "Fare-thee-well forever, Suzanna gal" line but is a simplified vocal sung over the Fly Around form. Also included in the Blackard/Shelor version above is a "western country" stanza.
R. Matteson 2018]
"Susanna Gal"
I am going away to leave you Suzanna gal
I am going away to leave you Suzanna gal
I am going to the western country, Suzanna gal
I am going to the western country, Suzanna gal
I'm going tomorrow to marry you, Suzanna gal
I'm going tomorrow to marry you, Suzanna gal
Fare-thee well forever, Suzanna gal
Fare-thee well forever, Suzanna gal
I am going to the western country, Suzanna gal
I am going to the western country, Suzanna gal
I'm going tomorrow to marry you, Suzanna gal
I'm going tomorrow to marry you, Suzanna gal.