Brown Skin Girl chords by Harry Belafonte

Chords with lyrics

Key: E MajorE

🎸 Intro:

BB  E MajorE  BB  E MajorE


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

🎸 Chorus:
    E MajorE               BB    E MajorE
"Ah de brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby
                BB    E MajorE
Brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby"
  E MajorE   E7E7    A augmentedA
I'm goin' away in a sailing boat
     E MajorE               BB    E MajorE
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind, baby

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


🎸 Chorus:
    E MajorE               BB    E MajorE
"Ah de brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby
                BB    E MajorE
Brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby"
  E MajorE   E7E7    A augmentedA
I'm goin' away in a sailing boat
     E MajorE               BB    E MajorE
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind, baby

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

🎸 Instrumental:
E MajorE    BB  E MajorE
E    BB  E MajorE
E  E7E7 A augmentedA
E MajorE    BB  E MajorE

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

🎸 Chorus:
    E MajorE               BB    E MajorE
"Ah de brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby
                BB    E MajorE
Brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby"
  E MajorE   E7E7    A augmentedA
I'm goin' away in a sailing boat
     E MajorE               BB    E MajorE
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind, baby
 E MajorE               BB    E MajorE
"Brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby
                BB    E MajorE
Brown skin girl, stay home and mind, baby"
  E MajorE   E7E7    A augmentedA
I'm goin' away in a sailing boat
     E MajorE               BB    E MajorE
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind, baby