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Origins: Black Eyed Sally (4)

Origins: Black Eyed Sally

14 Feb 08

I am looking for information about a song I learned back in the 1960s, probably called Black Eyed Sally. I remember it as a moderately fast bluegrass tune. I have no idea what the band was. The chords here match the way I sing it, which could be wrong.


  BLACK EYED SALLY
  
  CHORUS:
  D
  Goin to the barn dance down in the valley
  G
  Takin a chance on black-eyed Sally
  C                  A              D
  Wildcat liquor and old time music too
           G
  We'll be dancin, singin, goin strong
  C                  A
  Hills'll be ringin all night long
  D                                            G
  Come along Sally gonna step out tonight with you
  
  
  G
  Now where's that man from down the holler?
  E
  Buyin moonshine with his last dollar
  A
  Today he's livin on women and wine
  D                               G
  Tomorrow he'll live on down the line
  
  
  CHORUS
  
  G
  Now where's that girl named Betty Ann Lee?
  E
  Starin at the moon through the old pine tree
  A
  She's been out tonight with three or four
  D                                            G
  But she's come back looking for two or three more
  
  CHORUS

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