Have You Seen Her Have You Seen Her "Have You Seen Her" is a song recorded by the soul vocal group, The Chi-Lites, and released on Brunswick Records in 1971. Composed by the lead singer Eugene Record and Barbara Acklin, the song was included on the group's 1971 album "(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People". The Chi-Lites recorded "Have You Seen Her" in a style owing much to the doo-wop traditions of the late 1950s, after the success of another such song earlier in the year, The Temptations' "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)." The song begins and ends with
Oh! Susanna hot I froze to death, Susanna don't you cry<br> Oh Susanna! Oh don't you cry for me!<br> For I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee! I had a dream the other night, when everything was still<br> I thought I saw Susanna dear a-comin' down the hill<br> A red red rose was in her hand, a tear was in her eye<br> I said I come from dixieland, Susanna don't you cry!<br> Oh Susanna! Oh, don't you cry for me!<br> For I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee<br> I soon will be in New Orleans, and