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\u00a0<img src=”\/images\/song-BILL.png” class=”emoji” \/><\/span><\/p>\n

KEY OF C ? D – – – <\/span>Gene Autry – – – LISTEN BEFORE PLAYING<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[VERSE]\u00a0 [C] I drove a herd of cattle down <\/span><\/span>from [D7] old Nebraska way.\u00a0 <\/span>That’s [G7] how I come to be in the [C] state of Iowa.<\/span>
\n<\/span>[C] I met a gal in Iowa, her [D7] eyes were big and blue.\u00a0 <\/span>I [G7] asked her what her name was, she said, Sioux City [C] Sue<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } [C] Sioux City Sue, [D7] Sioux City Sue<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Your [G7] hair is red, your eyes are blue<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>[C] I’d swap my [F] horse and [C] dog for [G7] you<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>[C] Sioux City Sue, [D7] Sioux City Sue,
\n<\/span>There [Dm] <\/span>ain’t<\/span> no gal as [G7] true as my sweet Sioux City [C] Sue<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[VERSE]\u00a0 [C] I asked her if she had a beau, she [D7] said, “Yes quite a few”<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>But [G7] still I started <\/span>courtin<\/span>‘ my [C] sweet Sioux City Sue.<\/span>
\n<\/span>The [C] first time that I stole a kiss, I [D7] caught her stealing two<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>I [G7] asked her did she love me, <\/span>She<\/span> said, “Indeed I [C] do”<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[VERSE]\u00a0 [C] I’m admitting Iowa, I [D7] owe a lot to you<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>‘Cause<\/span> I [G7] come from Nebraska to [C] find Sioux City\u00a0Sue<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>I’m [C] <\/span>gonna<\/span> rope and tie her up, I’ll [D7] use my old <\/span>lasso<\/span>o<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>I’m [G7] <\/span>gonna<\/span> put my brand on my sweet Sioux City [C] Sue<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } [C] Sioux City Sue, [D7] Sioux City Sue<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Your [G7] hair is red, your eyes are blue<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>[C] I’d swap my [F] horse and [C] dog for [G7] you<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>[C] Sioux City Sue, [D7] Sioux City Sue,
\n<\/span>There [Dm] <\/span>ain’t<\/span> no gal as [G7] true as my sweet Sioux City [C] Sue<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<img src=”\/images\/song-BILL.png” class=”emoji” \/> KEY OF C ? D – – – Gene Autry – – – LISTEN BEFORE PLAYING { CHORUS } [VERSE]\u00a0 [C] I drove a herd of cattle down from [D7] old Nebraska way.\u00a0 That’s [G7] how I come to be in the [C] state of Iowa. … CLICK TO VIEW SONGSioux City Sue<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,133,126,265,13,116,117,123,115,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27427,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14011\/revisions\/27427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}