Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar guitar tab

"Brown Sugar" - by the Rolling Stones

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A friend of mine just showed me this recently. I love it :)

Chords only, though... lyrics should be easy from the recording,

and for any lead you're on your own... I don't "do" lead :)

(Note: I'm not filling in chords that were already diagramed,

I'm doing this on the fly and it takes too long!)

Main part:

e---x---x-------8---x-------4-------6----------

b---8---9-------8--10-------4-------6----------

g---8---8-------9--10-------5-------7----------

d---8---8------10--10-------6-------8----------

a---6---6------10---8-------6-------8----------

E---x---x-------8---x-------4-------6----------

D# D#? D# B# E# B# G# D# A# E# B#

Where "Brown Sugar" lyrics come in:

e---3------

b---3------

g---4------

d---5------

a---5------

E---3------

G B#

That's about the whole song... The strumming is a little strange;

listen to the album. More Stones stuff, please! (If anyone has it!)

Rolling Stones

Brown Sugar

CORRECTED VERSION: 1.A

IMPORTANT!! Use open G tuning -DGDGBD- that Keith uses on many Stones

songs, e.g., Honky Tonk Woman, I Go Wild, etc. Drop the high E string

to D, Drop the A string to G, and drop the low E string to D.

The song is pretty easy to play once you get the tuning and the basic

chord and rythym patterns down.

Intro

-------------------------------------------------------D----------------

-13-12-------------------------------------------------B----------------

-12-12--8-8-8-9-8--------------------------------------G----------------

-14-12--9-9-9-9-9--------------------------------------D----------------

-------------------------------------------------------G----------------

-------------------------------------------------------D----------------

Verse intro

--8-8-8--8--8--5-5-5-5-5--1-1-1-3-3--5-5-5-5----------------------------

--8-8-9--9--8--5-5-6-6-5--1-2-1-4-3--6-6-6-5----------------------------

--8-8-8--8--8--5-5-5-5-5--1-1-1-3-3--5-5-5-5----------------------------

--8-8-10-10-8--5-5-7-7-5--1-3-1-5-3--7-7-7-5----------------------------

--8-8-8--8--8--5-5-5-5-5--1-1-1-3-3--5-5-5-5----------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Verse

C F

Gold coast . . .

--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10------------------------------

--5-5-5-5-5-7-5-6--10-10-10-10-10-11-10-11------------------------------

--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10------------------------------

--5-7-5-5-5-7-5-7--10-12-10-10-10-12-10-12------------------------------

--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------

C Bflat

-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------------------------------------------------------

-5-5-5-5-5-7-5-6--------------------------------------------------------

-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------------------------------------------------------

-5-7-5-5-5-7-5-7--3-3-3-3-3-3-5-3-5-5-----------------------------------

-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--3-3-3-3-3-3-5-3-5-5-----------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------

This basic pattern varies somewhat verse to verse.

Chorus

G C

--------------------------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5---------------------

--------------------------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-6-6-5---------------------

-0-0------------5---3--0-0-0-0--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5---------------------

-0-0-----0-2-0-(5)-(3)-0-0-2-0--5-5-7-5-7-5-5-7-7-5---------------------

-0-0-3/4-0---0-(5)-(3)-0-0-0-0--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5---------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Brown sugar . . . .

Notes in parentheses are optional, but add a deeper, bluesy flavor,

especially when slightly bent.

At the end, when Mick is singing, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, . . . woo!" go back and

forth between G (open) and C (5th fret bar). (If you've gotten this far, you

will figure it out.)

I'm tabbing from memory, but I think this should at least get you close.

Feel free to send comments/suggestions.

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