Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones

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Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar - from their Sticky Fingers album.

Chords used ar
|3-5-5-4-3-3| 
|3-3-5-5-5-3| 
|6-6-8-8-8-6| 
|4-6-6-5-4-4| 
|6-8-8-7-6-6| 
|8-10-10-9-8-8
|8-8-10-10-10-

e:
G
C
Eb
Ab
Bb
| C*
8| F


[Intro] (kinda honky-tonk, moderate rock)
               *
        *  (merge to verse)


[Verse 1]

(
Gold Coast sla

ve ship bound 

for cotton fie

lds

Sold in a mark

et down in New

 Orleans

Scarred old sl

aver beatin wo

men all night
            
You should'a h

          
eard him just 

around midnigh

t


[Chorus]

             
              

             
 Brown Sugar, 

how come you t

aste so good?
             
              

             
 Brown Sugar, 

just like a yo

ung girl shoul

d
() /  /     *  /  /    *


[Verse 2] (same rhythm as before)

Drums beatin', cold English blood runs hot,
Lady of the house wonders when it's gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doin' alright,
You shoulda heard him just around midnight


Chorus (only difference... just like a black girl should)


[Verse 3]

I bet your momma was a tent show queen,
And all of her boyfriends were sweet sixteen
I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like,
You shoulda heard me just around midnight


[Chorus]

             
              

             
 Brown Sugar, 

how come you t

aste so good?
             
              

             
 Brown Sugar, 

just like a yo

ung girl shoul

d, ya ya
             
              

             
              

            I 

said yeah,
             
yeah, yeah, wh

             
oo            

how come you, 

how come you d

ance so good?
             
              

             
              

            I 

said yeah,
             
yeah, yeah, wh

             
oo            

just like a bl

ack girl shoul

d
             
Yeah, yeah, ye

             
ah, whoo