If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)
Lyrics and Music : B.G. DeSylva and Joseph Meyer
Key: F
Copyright 1925

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File Created 05-04-2025
File Updated 05-09-25

Verse 1:

F            C7               F    C7
I have got a sweetie known as Susie
F               C7                   F
In the words of Shakes-peare she’s a “wow”
Am            C+
Though all of you
C             D7
May know her, too
C           G7          C  CdimC7
I’d like to shout right now

Chorus 1:

   F
If you knew Susie
     FM7
Like I know Susie
Dm7DdimC7
Oh!Oh! Oh! What a girl!

        C7
There’s none so classy
As this fair lassie
F   C+  F
Oh! Oh! Holy Moses
G7     C7
What a chassis!

F
We went rid-ing
Bb
She didn’t balk
G7
Back from Yonkers
C7      B7       C7     C9
I’m the one that had to walk

   F
If you knew Susie
     G7
Like I know Susie
Gm7 C7         F     DdimC7
Oh! Oh! What a  girl!

Verse 2:

F           C7            F     C7
Susie has a per-fect repu-tation
F           C7           F
No one ever saw her on a spree
Am     C+
Nobody knows
C           D7
Where Susie goes
C      G7        C  DdimC7
Nobody knows but me

Chorus 2:

   F
If you knew Susie
     FM7
Like I know Susie
Dm7[Ddim    C7
Oh!Oh! Oh! What a girl!

She wears long tresses and nice tight dresses
F   C+  F
Oh! Oh! What a future
G7  C7
She posesses!

F
Out in public
Bb
How she can yawn
G7
In a parlor
C7        B7        C7      C9
You would think the war was on

   F
If you knew Susie
     G7
Like I know Susie
Gm7 C7         F     C7F
Oh! Oh! What a  girl!

Chorus Variation 3:

F
She'll spend Sunday
Bb
Praising the Lord
G7
But on Monday,
C7       B7   C7    C9
She's as busy  as a Ford

   F
If you knew Susie
     G7
Like I know Susie
Gm7 C7         F     C7F
Oh! Oh! What a  girl!

Chorus Variation 4:

F
I had a mustache
Bb
And trained it like a pup
G7
She got such hot lips
   C7        B7       C7        C9
Shekissed me once and burned it up

   F
If you knew Susie
     G7
Like I know Susie
Gm7 C7         F     C7F
Oh! Oh! What a  girl!




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