| There’s a house that’s widely known |
| To everybody from my town |
| It’s in the middle of a wheat field |
| It’s rotten and rundown |
| And there’re still people that remember |
| The young bride that once lived there |
| And how she hid his little secret |
| Behind her golden hair |
| Now the grass grows through the floorboards |
| You can see through to the ground |
| And the caraganas taking over all the way around |
| And the echoes of her sadness |
| They blow from room to room |
| But the strangest thing is how she comes to life in early June |
| Through the golden glow of hundreds of thousands |
| Of black eyed Susans |
| They roamed to town on Tuesdays |
| To the market for supplies |
| Back then there were no glasses to hide her darkened eyes |
| Then all of a sudden |
| He took those trips all by himself |
| And his story was she left him |
| And ran off with someone else |
| They sat him down and questioned him |
| Then they searched the place |
| For some evidence against him |
| But they never found a trace |
| Of anything that’d point |
| To how that young girl disappeared |
| But her spirit leaves a clue |
| In abundance every year |
| Through the golden glow of hundreds of thousands |
| Of black eyed Susans |
| Oh, black eyed Susans |
| It’s a shocking, haunting number |
| Of flowers that surround |
| The house that’s widely known |
| To everybody from my town |
| As the echoes of her sadness |
| They blow from room to room |
| She gets her revenge on him |
| Each and every June |
| Through the golden glow of hundreds of thousands |
| By living on and on in all those thousands |
| Of black eyed Susans |
| Oh, black eyed Susans |
| Oh, black eyed Susans |