Rolling Stones, Brown Sugar (1971)
Key: :[F] (w: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
INTRO:
[F] [A#] [F] [A#] //
[F] [A#] [F] [A#]
[D#] [A#] [Ab] [D#] //
[A#] [D#] [A#] [Ab]
[D#] [A#]
VERSE 1:
[A#] Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
[D#] Sold in the market down in New Orleans
[A#] Scarred old slaver knows he's doin' all right
[Ab] Hear him whip the women
[A#] just around midnight
CHORUS 1:
[F] Brown Sugar,
[A#] how come you taste so good
[F] Brown Sugar,
[A#] just like a young girl should
BREAK: [Db] [A#] [Gb] [Ab] [D#] [A#]
VERSE 2:
[A#] Drums beatin' cold, English blood runs hot
[D#] Lady of the house wonderin' when it's gonna stop
[A#] House boy knows that he's doin' all right
[Ab] You should have heard him
[A#] just around midnight
REPEAT CHORUS 1:
INSTRUMENTAL: [Db] [A#] [Gb] [Ab] [D#] [A#] :
[x5]
CHORUS 2:
[F] Brown Sugar,
[A#] how come you dance so good
[F] Brown Sugar,
[A#] just like a bad girl should
VERSE 3:
[A#] I bet your mama was a tent show queen
And
[D#] all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen
[A#] I'm no school boy but I know what I like
[Ab] You should have heard them
[A#] just around midnight
REPEAT CHORUS 1:
BREAK: [F] [A#]
OUTRO:
I said,
[F] yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo
[A#] How come you, how come you dance so good
Yeah,
[F] yeah, yeah, wooo
[A#] Just like a, just like a black girl should
Yeah,
[F] yeah, yeah, wooo
[A#]
[F] [A#] [F] [A#] [F] [A#] [D#] [A#]