Brown Sugar

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

BROWN SUGAR
By: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
Key: C

  6    6     6     5
Gold Coast slave ship 
  5   -3*  5   5    6
bound for cot-ton fields.
 6   5 -3* 5  -3*  5  -3*  5  5    6
Sold in a mar-ket down in New Or-leans
   6     6    6  5
Scarred old slav-er 
  5   -3*   5  5  5    6
knows he’s do-in’ al-right
 -5   5   -5   5  -5  5  
Hear him whip the wom-en 
  6  5   5    5    5  
just a-round mid-night.
  -6  -6   7
Brown Sug-ar, 
-6   -6   6    -6  7  6 5
how come you taste so good? Huh?
  -6  -6   7
Brown Sug-ar, 
 -6   -6  6   -6    7   6 -5    -5 5-5
just like a young girl should - Uh huh!

 6 5   6   6    5
Drums beat-in’ cold, 
-5   5     6    6    6
Eng-lish blood runs hot!
6 -5* -5 -5    6   -5    5
La-dy of the house won-d’rin’ 
 -5*  -5*  -5*  5  -5*
where it’s gon-na stop.
  6    6   6 7    5  -3*   5  5   5   6
House-boy knows that he’s do-in’ al-right.
-5    5  -55   -5   5
You should-a heard him 
  6  5   5    5    5   7(glissando down)
just a-round mid-night!  Ah
  -6  -6   7
Brown Sug-ar, 
-6   -6   6    -6  7  6 5
how come you taste so good? Huh?
  -6  -6   7
Brown Sug-ar, 
 -6   -6  6   -6    7   6 -5    -5 5-5
just like a young girl should - Uh huh!

  -6  -6   7
Brown Sug-ar, 
-6   -6   6    -6  7  6 5
how come you taste so good? Huh?
  -6  -6   7
Brown Sug-ar, 
 -6   -6  6   -6    7   6 -5    -5 5-5
just like a young girl should - Uh huh!

6  6    6  6  5   5 -3*  5    5    6   
I bet your Ma-ma was a tent-show queen
 6   5  -3*   6    -5
And all her girl-friends 
-3*    5    5    6
were sweet six-teen.
 6   6    6    5   5 -3*  5    5  5  6
I’m no school-boy but I know what I like 
-5     5 -55   -5   5
You should-a heard ‘em 
  6  5   5    5    5
just a-round mid-night.

  -6  -6   7
Brown Sug-ar, 
-6   -6   6    -6  7  6 5
how come you taste so good? Huh?
  -6  -6   7
Brown Sug-ar, 
 -6   -6  6   -6    7   6 -5    -5 5-5
just like a young girl should - Uh huh!

  -6  -6   7
Brown Sug-ar, 
-6   -6   6    -6  7  6 5
how come you taste so good? Huh?
  -6  -6   7
Brown Sug-ar, 
 -6   -6  6   -6    7   6 -5    -5 5-5
just like a young girl should - Uh huh!
6  -6    7   6  -6    7   6  -6    7
I said yeah  I said yeah  I said yeah
6  -6  7    6   -6  6   7    -6     6
I said oh just like a black girl should 
6  -6    7
I said yeah

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