Lyrics for Brown Sugar as interpreted by oofus

Brown Sugar Lyrics
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver know he doin' alright
Hear him whip the woman just around midnight
Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
Aha Brown Sugar just like a young girl should Ahuh

Drums beating cold English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wond'rin where its gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doing alright
You should a heard him just around midnight
Ah Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
Aha Brown Sugar just like a young girl should Ahuh
Ah Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
Aha Brown Sugar just like a black girl should Ahuh

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
Aha Brown Sugar just like a young girl should Ahuh

I said yeah, yeah, yeah oh
How come you taste so good

I said yeah, yeah, yeah oh
Just like a just like a black girl should

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shauncreaney
07-21-2002

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i originally thought that brown sugar was a metaphor for oral sex. firstly, because it should taste good as far as i have been told. (i can't speak from experience here), hence the 'sugar'. and 'brown' secondly because most pubic hairs are brown (some physiologist told me). but after some critical thinking, i arrived at a different conclusion. i think that some african slaves in the US may have been unwarrantedly force to harvest brown sugar for the elitist fat-cat caucasian racist nabob-bosses. or maybe the rolling stones went abe lincoln style and decided to praise the sexual prowess of the young black princess. i 'heard' that many of these cock-asian fellows would fornicate with their black wenches while the housewife listened to the bumps in the night but did nothing. oh well, so much for american freedom. 'the home of the free and the slave' as far as i'm concerned.

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shauncreaney
07-21-2002

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i originally thought that brown sugar was a metaphor for oral sex. firstly, because it should taste good as far as i have been told. (i can't speak from experience here), hence the 'sugar'. and 'brown' secondly because most pubic hairs are brown (some physiologist told me). but after some critical thinking, i arrived at a different conclusion. i think that some african slaves in the US may have been unwarrantedly force to harvest brown sugar for the elitist fat-cat caucasian racist nabob-bosses. or maybe the rolling stones went abe lincoln style and decided to praise the sexual prowess of the young black princess. i 'heard' that many of these cock-asian fellows would fornicate with their black wenches while the housewife listened to the bumps in the night but did nothing. oh well, so much for american freedom. 'the home of the free and the slave' as far as i'm concerned.

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killingFloor
08-23-2002

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no oral sex or other "fanta-sex-stories".
i've read that this song is _dedicated_ to heroin: brown sugar is actually a type of heroin.
Differently from Reed's song "heroin", in brown sugar the meanings is hidden and definitely pro heroin (how come you taste so good...)
remember how this killer-drug was on fashion in the 70's...



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Tyler250
09-07-2002

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Either of your answers seem right


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sapphireskies
09-25-2002

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i've always believed this song referred to guys raping black girls/slaves.

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Karamellpojken
10-13-2002

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I agree with sapphireskies


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lilavati
10-13-2002

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I think killingFloor makes a good point...it reminds me of some other Stones songs like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" or "Rocks Off" which may also be mainly drug-inspired, but are too ambiguous to tell for certain. Also...for what it's worth, I remember reading Entertainment Weekly describe the song as a "paradoxical bondage fantasy", which I can see too.

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happylittlditty
03-07-2003

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One of those songs that was meant to be....kind of like the Rolling Stones themselves. Can't help but sing along with the chorus, music to my ears!

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hednirvana
04-05-2003

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To me the first part of the song talks about the slave trade, then you have a reference to the Revolutionary War in America: "Drums beating cold English blood runs hot". Also is the chorus, referring to "owners" of the slaves raping the young women. Then at the end of the song it's kind of like he's glad the slave trade happened, not for all the major reasons, but just so he could taste the chocolate love.

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azriel
04-23-2003

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This song is definitely about Heroin, and nothing else. Certain lyrics can be used to "dress up" parts of this song to lead a majority to believe it means other discussed topic(s) above. The sad reality is this song is about Heroin and nothing else. Except the truth!!

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Muzzy
05-07-2003

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Well I won't argue whether or not this song is about heroin.

I read that Jagger wrote this about a dancer, maybe a dancer that was on the road with them. She was a black girl and he had a thing for her.

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Kombo
06-25-2003

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about a black girl's pussy; wee

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Romer
05-05-2004

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Song is about herion. Reference: "Up and Down with the Rolling Stones"

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goodmusic44
05-11-2004

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its abouyt sex with black people. why heroine when its says "you should of heard him justy about midnight" or "just like a black girl should" And as far as i know, you smoke, inject of snort heroine, not eat. Heroine is scary shit, this song would make it seem to cool. Who likes being on heroine as the would suggests. I have a friend that was addicted, and he felt shitty everyday and had to go to rehab.

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decemberist
06-14-2004

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in an interview with Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger said the meaning is twofold - heroine and oral sex.

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epp88
06-21-2004

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this is a great rocking song. you gotta love a song this rockin' and w/ such a funny meaning- oral sex. best fucking stones song!

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JumpyJack
11-16-2004

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This song makes me wanna dance on my head. Anyways it's about BOTH heroin and black pussy. Only the title really refers to heroin, none of the lyrics do. Jagger had a good laugh when Coca-Cola asked him for permission to use the song in ads. And uh--shauncreamy--slavery was abolished many, many years ago. If you'd rather live somewhere like Cuba or North Korea or ----Hell-----please feel free to relocate.

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JumpyJack
11-16-2004

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Emphasis on FREE in that last sentence.

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the_libertine
03-20-2005

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Just thought that I'd mention I love the intro to this song. I'm wierd like that :s

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Buddha of Suburbia
04-06-2005

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I've always heard (and it makes complete sense) that it is about slave owners forcing sex upon their black slave girls, and the white wives knowing about it and not doing anything, because back then, they wouldn't have.
"Lady of the house wondering when its gonna stop."

Oh, and it's agreed: definitely a good intro.

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JumpyJack
05-28-2005

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Another point--Don't rely too much on the book "Up and Down With the Rolling Stones". That book is full of falsehoods. For example-Sanchez wrote that Keith Richards and others were lectured and warned by the pastor at Brian Jones' funeral. Keith Richards did not attend Brian Jones' funeral. Mick Jagger was seeing a black girl named Marsha Hunt at the time this song was written. She was probably the main inspiration.

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Comrade_Liar
06-07-2005

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"If you'd rather live somewhere like Cuba or North Korea or ----Hell-----please feel free to relocate"

- Cuba's poor, North Koreas a scary scary place and Hells climate doesnt suit me. Come to think of it I wouldn't wanna live in America either, but thats mainly cos it wouldnt be different enough from Britain to justify moving. To suggest that if you think conditions in a country are unfair the correct responce is to leave rather than sort them out is rediculous. Remember, questioning your government is patriotic.

That aside, I pretty much agree with your opinion on this song. Deliberate double entendre, but the main focus of the song is on the rape of the slave girl.

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JumpyJack
07-26-2005

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Questioning the government is indeed patriotic and the right to is part of what makes this a great country. The problem is that most people like Mr. Creamy aren't questioning, they're criticizing. That would be fine too if they actually tried to do anything to change things, which the great majority of them do not. Also, what I mean when I tell people to "love it or leave it" is that maybe they should see how truly awful the living conditions in many other countries is. Maybe then they can return with a better appreciation.

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pt
08-26-2005

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It's about a few different things.....Jagger was no genuis lyricist (and i can't spell) so were even,,,err maybe not, but i digress.

The lyrics are as crazy as anything that is on the radio today, let along in 1970.

Still not sure how they got away with this one.


Great song , but again the lyrics are about what facinated them the most at the time, Heroin, and literal meaning of the song is obvious.

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JumpyJack
08-28-2005

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You couldn't be more wrong.

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