Lyrics to
Brown Sugar

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My friends, they all told me,
Man, there’s something gonna change your life.
My friends, they all told me,
Man, there’s something gonna change your life.
Gotta have that brown sugar.
Man it’s just gonna change my life.
Man, I gotta have that brown sugar.
Man, it’s just gonna make me feel so right.

There’s something make me feel good,
and it’s gonna change my life.
There’s something make me feel good,
and it’s gonna change my life.
I gotta have some of that Brown Sugar,
Gotta try it before I die.

Man it sure do save me
when there’s no place left for me.
Man it sure do save me
when there’s no place left for me.
Gotta have some of that Brown Sugar
as long as that’s gonna set me free.

Man, there’s somethin’ make me feel good
and it’s gonna change my life.
Man, there’s somethin’ make me feel good
and it’s gonna change my life.
I gotta have some of that Brown Sugar,
Gotta try it before I die.

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Zz Top has released many songs over the years besides Brown Sugar. Zz Top released songs from 1971 to 2003 spanning across albums like ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango!, Tejas, Deguello, El Loco, Eliminator, Afterburner, Recycler, Antenna, Rhythmeen, XXX, and Mescalero. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Zz Top.

About Lyrics and Brown Sugar by Zz Top

When you decide to study the lyrics to Brown Sugar, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Zz Top. Some of the lyrics to Brown Sugar have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Zz Top and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Brown Sugar if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Brown Sugar" means the words set to the music of Brown Sugar, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Zz Top. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Brown Sugar and the lyrics to Brown Sugar are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Zz Top who came here looking just for the lyrics to Brown Sugar, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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