"Brown Sugar" lyrics

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields

Sold in a market down in New Orleans

Scarred old [Skydog] slaver knows he's doing alright

Hear him whip the women just around midnight



Brown sugar how come you taste so good?

Brown sugar just like a young girl should



Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot

Lady of the house wonderin' where it's gonna stop

House boy knows that he's doing alright

You shoulda heard him just around midnight



Brown sugar how come you taste so good, now?

Brown sugar just like a young girl should, now



Ah, get along, brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?

Ah, got me feelin' now, brown sugar just like a black 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 shoulda heard me just around midnight



Brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?

Ah, brown sugar just like a young girl should, yeah



I said yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

How come you... how come you taste so good?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

Just like a... just like a black girl should

Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo







Thanks to JayRock for correcting these lyrics.



Mick Jagger wrote the riff to this song during the filming of the film "Ned Kelly" (1970) in Australia where he played the title role.

Keith Richards wrote in his book "Life" how Mick Jagger penned these lyrics, "He wrote it down as fast as he could move his hand. I'd never seen anything like it. He had one of those yellow legal pads, and he'd write a verse a page, just write a verse and then turn the page, and when he had three pages filled, they started to cut it. It was amazing!"

Bill Wyman told in an interview for Rolling Stone in 2002, "The lyrics were partially inspired by a black backing singer we knew in L.A. called Claudia Linnear."