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Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones - Guitar Chords

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

Chords used are:
|3-5-5-4-3-3| G
|3-3-5-5-5-3| C
|6-6-8-8-8-6| Eb
|4-6-6-5-4-4| Ab
|6-8-8-7-6-6| Bb
|8-10-10-9-8-8| C*
|8-8-10-10-10-8| F


[Intro] (kinda honky-tonk, moderate rock)
G C G C G C  Eb  C  Ab  Bb  C*
Eb  C  Ab  Bb  C*  (merge to verse)


[Verse 1]

(C*)
Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
F
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
C*
Scarred old slaver beatin women all night
Bb                      C*
You should'a heard him just around midnight


[Chorus]

G                          C
               Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good?
G                          C
               Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should
(C) / Eb / C  Ab Bb C*  / Eb / C Ab Bb C*


[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]

G                          C
               Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good?
G                          C
               Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should, ya ya
G                          C
                                        I said yeah,
G                          C
yeah, yeah, whoo            how come you, how come you dance so good?
G                          C
                                        I said yeah,
G                          C
yeah, yeah, whoo            just like a black girl should
G                          C
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whoo
G                          C

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