Brown Skin Girl chords by Harry Belafonte

Key: E

🎸 Intro:

B  E  B  E



🎸 Verse 1:
   B           E
Everything to keep me from sleepin'
     B           E
A lot of sailor boys, they were leavin'
     B           E
And everybody there, they were jumpin'
      B         E      NC
To hear the sailor boys in our chorus singin'

🎸 Chorus:
    E               B    E
"Ah de brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby
                B    E
Brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby"
  E   E7    A
I'm goin' away in a sailing boat
     E               B    E
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind, baby


🎸 Verse 2:
     B         E
Now the Americans made an invasion
       B         E
We thought it was a help to the island
      B          E
Until they left from here on vacation
       B         E         NC
They left the native boy home to mind their children


🎸 Chorus:
    E               B    E
"Ah de brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby
                B    E
Brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby"
  E   E7    A
I'm goin' away in a sailing boat
     E               B    E
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind, baby


🎸 Verse 3:
   B            E
Now I tell you de story 'bout Millie
  B           E
She made a nice blue-eyed baby
   B         E
They say she fancy the mother
    B          E       NC
But the blue-eyed baby ain't know she father

🎸 Instrumental:
E    B  E
E    B  E
E  E7 A
E    B  E

🎸 Verse 4:
     B            E
Now the Americans all have their pleasure
     B           E
While the music played to their leisure
     B          E
And everybody there they were jumpin'
      B         E      NC
To hear the sailor boys in our chorus singin'

🎸 Chorus:
    E               B    E
"Ah de brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby
                B    E
Brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby"
  E   E7    A
I'm goin' away in a sailing boat
     E               B    E
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind, baby
 E               B    E
"Brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby
                B    E
Brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby"
  E   E7    A
I'm goin' away in a sailing boat
     E               B    E
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind, baby