Black Eyed Susie

This version of Black Eyed Susie is adapted from Uncle Earl’s Waterloo, Tennessee CD on Rounder records.

A short, sweet, and fun tune played in the key of D (this version anyway).  Here are some lyrics that can be sung along with Black Eyed Susie if desired

I may get drunk, I may get woozy

But I'm goin' home with black-eyed Susie...

Chorus

Hey, black eyed Susie, Ho, black eyed Susie

Hey, black eyed Susie Jane

I got a girl, lives in a holler

She won't come, and I won't call 'er...

Old man, old man, I want your daughter

To carry my wood and carry my water...

Black eyed Susie went to town

All she wore was a gingham gown...

I love my wife, I love my baby

Love my biscuits sopped in gravy...

Up red oak and down salt water

Some old man gonna lose his daughter...

All I need to make me happy, Two little boys to call me pappy

One named Paul, the other one Davy, One likes ham and the other one gravy

Black eyed Susie went huckleberry pickin', Came home late and took a lickin'

Goin' back home with a pocket full of money, Somebody there to call me honey

Here are a few versions of Black Eyed Susie that might be of interest.

-Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters, Mountain Frolic: Rare Old Timey Classics, JSP Records CD77100

-Clare Milliner and Walt Token, Just Tunes, Mudthumper 0030

-Cliffhangers, On the Edge, 5-String Productions 5SP05004

-Fiddlin’ Doc Roberts, Classic Fiddle Tunes 1927-1933, Spring Fed Records SFR-DU-33015

-Flat Mountain Girls, Honey Take Your Whiskers Off, Self Released

-The Holy Modal Rounders, I & II, Fantasy FCD-24711-2

-J.P. Nestor, The Bristol Sessions, Out of Print

-New Lost City Ramblers, String Band Instrumentals, Smithsonian Folkways FW02492

-Roscoe Holcomb, Mountain Music of Kentucky, Smithsonian Folkways SFW40077

-Steve Rosen and Acie Cargill, Old-Timey Giants

Download a pdf of Black Eyed Susie -> Click BlackEyedSusie.pdf.