Wake Up Little Susie chords by The Everly Brothers

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Wake Up Little Susie | Chords + Lyrics

Intro

||: (D/A) D5 | F G F :||

Chorus 1

| D | D | D F | G F D |
Wake up, little Susie, wake up.
| D | D | D F | G F D |
Wake up, little Susie, wake up.

Verse 1

| G D5 | G |
We’ve both been sound asleep.
| G D5 | G |
Wake up little Susie and weep.
| G D5 | G5 D5 |
The movie’s over, it’s four o’clock.
| G D5 | G |
And we’re in trouble deep. Wake up, little Susie.
| A | G | A | A |
Wake up, little Susie.

Verse 2

| A E | A |
Well, what are we gonna tell your mama?
| A E | A |
What are we gonna tell your pa’?
| A E | A E |
What are we gonna tell our friends when they say
| A N.C | N.C |
“Ooh, la, la”? Wake up, little Susie.
| D | A7 | D | D |
Wake up, little Susie.

Verse 3

| D | D | D | D7 |
Well, I told your mama that we’d be in by ten.
| G | G | G | G |
Well, Susie, baby, looks like we goofed again.
| A | G | A |
Wake up, little Susie. Wake up, little Susie.
| A N.C | D5 | F G F | D5 | F G F |
We gotta go home.

Chorus 2

| D | D | D F | G F D |
Wake up, little Susie, wake up.
| D | D | D F | G F D |
Wake up, little Susie, wake up.

Verse 4

| G D5 | G |
The movie wasn’t so hot.
| G D5 | G |
It didn’t have much of a plot.
| G D5 | G5 D5 |
We fell asleep, our goose is cooked.
| G D5 | G |
Our reputation is shot. Wake up, little Susie.
| A | G | A | A |
Wake up, little Susie.

Verse 5

| A E | A |
Well, what are we gonna tell your mama?
| A E | A |
What are we gonna tell your pa?
| A E | A E |
What are we gonna tell our friends when they say:
| A N.C | N.C |
“Ooh, la, la”? Wake up, little Susie.
| D | A7 | D | A7 | D |
Wake up, little Susie. Wake up, little Susie

Outro

||: D F G :|| to fade

Wake Up Little Susie’s chords, progressions, and TAB

The Everly Brothers must have thought; if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, when they recorded Wake Up Little Susie only six months after their first hit, Bye Bye Love.

Again, written by Mr. and Mrs. Bryant, the similarities are striking, although here they’ve taken it further by going through three key changes.

We start off in D, but “borrow” the IV and V from the key of C. Over the next verses we are using the I – IV – V from the key of D, then from the key of A before we go back to D again.

All this feels like it comes from the chord riff idea they added to Bye Bye Love’s intro.

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