by Marc Gunn, June 16, 2009

Firefly is still one of my all-time favorite TV shows ever. After writing “Monahan's Mudder's Milk”, I wondered what other songs might be heard in the Firefly verse? What traditional folk songs might've survived in the future and how might they've changed? That was the basis for this parody of the American folk song “O Susanna”.

I left my home on Ariel
An autoharp on my knee
I boarded a ship to Shadow
My true love for to see.
We burned real hard
For three whole weeks
Our boredom ne'er drawing nigh
Just the cold steel of a Firefly
Susanna, don't you cry.

O Susanna, don't you cry for me.
I left my home on Ariel, an autoharp on my knee
O Susanna, don't you cry for me.
I boarded a ship to Shadow My true love
For to see.

I had a dream the other night
Reevers they came on board
I thought I saw Susanna
Staring down that bloody horde
She loaded up a shotgun
The bullets never ran dry
Those reevers, they hit the ground
O Susanna, pulled me to her thigh.

I soon will be on Shadow.
I'll look in an old Saloon
If she's not there, I'll search the Verse
Comb every bloody moon.
And if I do not find her
Well, I'm sure I'll up'n'die
And when I'm dead and buried
O Susanna, don't you cry.

KEY Am

verse:
Am Am Am Am
G G G G
F F F F
G G G G
F F F F
C C C C
G G G G
Em Em Am Am

chorus:
C C G G
F F Am Am
C C G G
F F G G
Am Am