Brown Sugar Chords
by Ruth Brown
Brown Sugar by Ruth Brown is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, F, D#, G# and A#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C G C F C G C F C D# C G# A# C D# C G# A# C
C
Gold coast slave ship bound for cottom fields
F
Sold in a market down in new orleans
C
Scarred old slaver know he´ doing alright
A#
Hear him whip the women and
C
Just around midnight
G C
Brown sugar, how come you taste so good
G C D# C G# A# C
Brown sugar, just like a young girl should
C
Drums beating cold english blood runs hot
F
Lady of the house wonder in´ where it´ gonna stop houseboy knows
C A#
That he´ doing alright you should have heard him
C
Just around midnight
G C
Brown sugar, how come you taste so good
G C D# C G# A# C
Brown sugar, just like a young girl should
C
I bet your mama was a tent show queen
F
And all her boy friends were sweet sixsteen
C
I´m no schoolboy but I kwown what I like
A#
You should have heard me
C
Just around midnight
G C
Brown sugar, how come you taste so good
G C
Brown sugar, just like a young girl should
G C G C
Yeah yeah yeah wou! yeah yeah yeah wou
G C G C
I said yeah yeah yeah wou! brown sugar