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2
Rate for accuracy
🎸
Key: D
🎸 Intro:
C F C G
C G C G
C
C G C
🎸 Verse 1:
C F
Susie and the boys went huckleberry pickin'
C G
The boys got drunk and Susie got a lickin'
C F
Some got drunk and some got boozy
C G
But I went home to black-eyed Susie
🎸 Chorus:
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C G C
Hey Hey Hey
🎸 Verse 2:
C F
Black Eyed Susie about have grown
C G
Jump on a man, like a dog on a bone
C F
I asked her to be my wife
C G
She came at me with a barlow knife
🎸 Chorus:
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C G C
Hey Hey Hey
🎸 Verse 3:
C F
All I need to make me happy
C G
Is two little boys to call me pappy
C F
One named Paul, the other one Davy
C G
One likes biscuits and the other one gravy
🎸 Chorus:
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C G C
Hey Hey Hey
🎸 Verse 4:
C F
Love my wife and love my baby
C G
Love my biscuits sopped in gravy.
C F
Goin’ back home with a pocket full of money
C G
Somebody there to call me honey
🎸 Chorus:
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C
Hey Black Eyed Susie
C G C
Hey Hey Hey
Extra Verses:
C F
Black eyed Susie went to town
C G
All she wore was a gingham gown
C F
I may get drunk I may get woozy
C G
But I’m comin’ home to Black eyed Susie
C F
Black eyed Susie’s long and tall
C G
Sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall
C F
Hey old man I want your daughter
C G
To chop my wood and carry my water
C F
Black eyed Susie lives in a holler
C G
She won’t come and I won’t call her
C F
All I want in this creation
C G
Pretty little wife on a big plantation.
C F
All I need to make me happy
C G
Two little boys to call me Pappy
C F
One name Sop and the other name Gravy
C G
One sop it up and the other gonna save it.
C F
Up Red Oak and down salt water
C G
Some old man gonna lose his daughter
C F
Black eyed Susie went huckleberry pickin’
C G
Came home late and took a lickin’
C F
Black-Eyed Susie’s long and lean
C G
Prettiest girl I ever seen.
C F
Some got drunk and some got boozy
C G
But I made love to black-eyed Susie
C F
I'm walking drunk across the water
C G
Some old man's gonna' lose his daughter.
C F
I got me a gal ahead of the hill
C G
If she won't do it her sister will.
C F
I got me a gal in Witchita
C G
She's got four kids they call me pa.
C F
I got me a gal in Baton Rouge
C G
She's got ten kids
The Lord knows who's.
Song History
Published: October 10, 2021
Last Updated: September 10, 2025