VERSE 1:
[C#] Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
[F#] Sold in the market down in New Orleans
[C#] Scarred old slaver knows he's doin' all right
[B] Hear him whip the women [C#] just around midnight

CHORUS 1:
[G#] Brown Sugar, [C#] how come you taste so good
[G#] Brown Sugar, [C#] just like a young girl should

BREAK: [E] [C#] [A] [B] [F#] [C#]

VERSE 2:
[C#] Drums beatin' cold, English blood runs hot
[F#] Lady of the house wonderin' when it's gonna stop
[C#] House boy knows that he's doin' all right
[B] You should have heard him [C#] just around midnight

REPEAT CHORUS 1:

INSTRUMENTAL: [E] [C#] [A] [B] [F#] [C#] : [x5]

CHORUS 2:
[G#] Brown Sugar, [C#] how come you dance so good
[G#] Brown Sugar, [C#] just like a bad girl should

VERSE 3:
[C#] I bet your mama was a tent show queen
And [F#] all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen
[C#] I'm no school boy but I know what I like
[B] You should have heard them [C#] just around midnight

REPEAT CHORUS 1:

BREAK: [G#] [C#]

OUTRO:
I said, [G#] yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo
[C#] How come you, how come you dance so good
Yeah, [G#] yeah, yeah, wooo
[C#] Just like a, just like a black girl should
Yeah, [G#] yeah, yeah, wooo [C#]

[G#] [C#] [G#] [C#] [G#] [C#] [F#] [C#]