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