Black Eyed Susie

Traditional

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

      C          F
Black eyed Susie went to town
    C              G
All she wore was a gingham gown

Chorus

    C
Hey Black eyed Susie
   C
Ho Black eyed Susie
    C
Hey Black eyed Susie Jane.

Verse 2

  C             F
I may get drunk I may get woozy
    C          G
But I’m comin’ home to Black eyed Susie

Verse 3

      C    F
Black eyed Susie’s long and tall
       C      G
Sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall

Verse 4

    C         F
Hey old man I want your daughter
   C            G
To chop my wood and carry my water

Verse 5

      C          F
Black eyed Susie lives in a holler
    C              G
She won’t come and I won’t call her

Verse 6

    C         F
All I want in this creation
       C           G
Pretty little wife on a big plantation.

Verse 7

    C         F
All I need to make me happy
    C              G
Two little boys to call me Pappy.

Verse 8

    C            F
One name Sop and the other name Gravy
    C             G
One sop it up and the other gonna save it.

Verse 9

   C           F
Up Red Oak and down salt water
     C             G
Some old man gonna lose his daughter.

Verse 10

      C          F
Black eyed Susie went huckleberry pickin’
     C             G
Came home late and took a lickin’.

Verse 11

     C           F
Love my wife and love my baby
     C           G
Love my biscuits sopped in gravy.

Verse 12

      C         F
Goin’ back home with a pocket full of money
         C        G
Somebody there to call me honey.