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.

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.
(I said) yeah, yeah yeah Oh