Rolling Stones song...
 

Ok a friend of mine and I have had a long standing debate over what the lyrics of "Brown Sugar" mean. Is it about black women, heroin or both?

Lyrics:
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields,
Sold in a market down in New Orleans.
Scarred old slaver know he's doin' alright.
Hear him whip the women just around midnight.
Ah Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
(A - ha) Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should
A - huh.

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot,
Lady of the house wond'rin where it's gonna stop.
House boy knows that he's doin' alright.
You should a heard him just around midnight.
Ah Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
(A - ha) Brown Sugar, just like a black girl should
A - huh.

I bet your mama was a tent show queen, and all her boy
Friends were sweet sixteen.
I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like,
You should have heard me just around midnight.

Ah Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
(A - ha) Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said
Oh just like a, just like a black girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said
Oh just like, just like a black girl should.

Heroin.

Black woman

No debate here

the song was supposed to be about black women, but in reality was talking about heroine. I'm not the one saying it, the Stones do.

both heroin and black woman

drug

It's about elves from the bayou

it's about black (slave) women.

nothing to do with drugs

it is about a slave that did herione, and ..... i think Juicylinks fucked her too.....

According to Mick/Keith, it's just a song about an American slave-owner having sex with his black slaves. It could have been called The Thomas Jefferson Story.

Its a great song is what it is

:thumbsup

Other great Stones songs:

Honkytonk Woman
Tumbling Dice
Sympathy For the Devil
Gimme Shelter
Waiting On a Friend
Angie
Wild Horses
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Midnight Rambler
Undercover Of the Night
She's So Cold
Ain't Too Proud To Beg
Time Is On My Side
etc etc etc