Brown Sugar
Jagger & Richards / the Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (1971)
| |: | Fsus4 | F | | | Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | :| | |
| |: - - | / | / | | | / / | /' /' | /' /' | :| (3x) |
| |: | Db | Dbsus4 | Db | Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | Gb | Ab | Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | :| | |
| |: | / | / / / | / / | / | / / / | / / | / / / | / / / | / | / / / | / / | :| |
| Bb | Eb | |
| Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields, | sold in a market down in New Orleans. |
| Bb | Ab | Bb | |
| Scarred old slaver know he's doin' alright, | hear him whip the women | just around midnight: |
| F | Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | |||
| Brown Sugar | - how come you | taste so | good. |
| F | Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | |||
| Brown Sugar | - just like a | young girl | should. |
| Db | Dbsus4 | Db | Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | Gb | Ab | Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | |
| / | / / / | / / | / | / / / | / / | / / / | / / / | / | / / / | / / |
| Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot, lady of the house wond'ring where it's gonna stop. |
| Houseboy knows that he's doin' alright, you should have heard him just around midnight: |
| Brown Sugar - how come you taste so good. Brown Sugar - just like a young girl should. |
Solo
| |: | Bb | Db | Dbsus4 | Db | Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | Gb | Ab | Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | :| | Ab | Bb | |
| |: | / | / | / / / | / / | / | / / / | / / | / / / | / / / | / | / / / | / | :| (4x) | / | / / / |
| Brown Sugar - how come you taste so good. Brown Sugar - just like a young girl should. |
| I bet your mama was a tent show queen and all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen. |
| I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like, you should have heard me just around midnight: |
| Brown Sugar - how come you taste so good. Brown Sugar - just like a young girl should. |