Here we go!
Here on Top Of The Pops 1971 - the band doing their best to mime to the backing track but Mick is LIVE!
Great version and a nice mix here
N.B. The Stones have dropped this classic rock number from their playlist Jagger says the Rolling Stones took the decision to axe Brown Sugar from their setlist over its links to slavery. The song was dropped from the US leg of the 'No Filter' tour after critics had called it "gross, sexist and offensive toward black women”. People have speculated that the song was inspired by Tina Turner, Claudia Lennear or the more likely Marsha Hunt, mother of Jagger’s daughter Karis, so I would have asked them what they thought but if haters gonna hate, snowflakes gonna snow, whatcha gonna do?!
Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver, know 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, uh huh
Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wond'ring 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, babe?
Ah, got me feelin' now
Brown sugar, just like a black girl should, yeah
Now, 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, babe?
Ah, brown sugar, just like a young girl should, yeah
I said yeah, yeah, yeah, woooo
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
It’s a song . . . . about slavery and black women. It’s a part of Western History
but hey . . . . .
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