For the longest time (before the Internet) I thought this was the first verse in Brown Sugar:

Ko-Ko Shay she bought a cotton field
Slowin in the market down in New Orleans
God O say she’s doin alright
Here in with the women
Jus around midnight

I even wrote and recorded a song with an old college band of mine titled “Ko-Ko Shay.” And to this day when I’m drunk enough and feeling just the right amount of shameless, I’ll karaoke the song that way. And believe you me, I karaoke the sh*t out of that song.



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the lyrics of brown sugar are probably the hardest of stones songs, to hear learn and sing..?
i am 57 now and i have only recently learned it properly..

OK, here's what I know about Mick and his lyrics. He puposely does this. It dates back to the old blues singers. Listen to some old blues records. You can't understand them. I read an article once where Mick said he sings some lyrics that way, just to make the listener guess what he's saying.

Wow Genie what did ya hear when ya first spun Stoned?



ROCKMAN

I also thought it may be a trick to fit the lyrics to the melody. Just cram them all together and hit the rhyme. Know what I mean?

Wow Genie what did ya hear when ya first spun Stoned?

That happened with EXILE, and in a word, "God" or the greatest rock and roll band ever. Which for me is the same damn thing. OOOOPS, maybe you mean the song "Stoned." The first time I spun that I felt like I was breaking the law. I also used to turn down the part in SYMPATHY that goes "I was around when Jesus Christ had his moments of doubt..." just to keep my mother from worrying and my bed from levitating at night. Catholics, boy we got issues!



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Brown Sugar

gold coast slave she's bound for cotton fields
sold in the market down in New Orleans
scared old slaver knows he doing all right
hear him whip the women just around midnight
Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
Brown sugar just like a young girl should

Drums beat cold english blood runs hot
Lady of the house knows when he's gonna stop
How do I know he's doing all right
You should have heard him just around midnight

This is about all I can do from memory I think it is right here

drummer_dude

Slurring the lyrics was a good tool to get past the censors.

Drummer dude - that's pretty good. Maybe we should start a contest. No looking. Drummer dude is the person to beat thus far.

Try figuring out the lyrics to "Instrumental"

maybe you mean the song "Stoned

Yeah just wondered what ya heard Mick singin'.....Just foolin' with ya



ROCKMAN

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OK, here's what I know about Mick and his lyrics. He puposely does this. It dates back to the old blues singers. Listen to some old blues records. You can't understand them. I read an article once where Mick said he sings some lyrics that way, just to make the listener guess what he's saying.

Did he mention in the article what would be gained by such a tactic?

Try figuring out the lyrics to "Instrumental"

Doobie Doobie Doo Wah
Doobie Doobie Doo
Wah Wah Way Way
Doobie Doobie Dah

Any takers? Bring It!

bluz dude

gold coast slaveship bound for... !

and :
"houseboy knows he is doing all right "
apart from that all correct..

you get 8.0

Mick has always said that he makes himself hard to understand and he copped it from Little Richard.

Unless he's doing them in another language, they are always in English. It's just up to the listener to distinguish exactly what he is saying. Mick is not an American citizen last I knew so it's quite daft for someone to say something like that, 'speak English Mick'... that is up to American's that have to deal with Mexican's or various Central and South American people that are working for next to nothing, undermining the American jobs, etc...the usual bitch that everyone has in the United States and does NOTHING about.

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

Chorus

drums is beating cold english blood runs hot
lady of the house wondering when its gonna stop
houseboy knows that he's doing alright just around midnight

chorus

I bet your mama was a tent show queen
And all her boyfriends were sweet 16
I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like
You should have heard me just around midnight

I thought the full lyrics to Brown Sugar would be a minimal requirement for membership here.

website for misheard lyrics:


[www.kissthisguy.com]

bah - the Beatles were worse for me.
I thought they were singin' "blah, blah, blahhha" when indeed it was "love, love lahave"

Until only recently I thought it went

Tire[d] of living is easy to do...

from Wild Horses !

>> "blah, blah, blahhha" <<

[passing the popcorn to open-g honey :E :E :E ]

"I Am The Walrus" is worse, much worse...

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dcba
"I Am The Walrus" is worse, much worse...

Semolina pilchards, anyone?

But what's the most surreal Stones lyric?

I guess our Japanese friends have got no chance then!:




"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"



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"My drag was stuck on my little tree" Hahaha.. I am still laughing. I must use this somehow. Can't stand it when some Tompo gets stuck on my little tree...