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Nah, I bet your mama was a tent show queen And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen. I really dig my lyrics, especially the relocated comma in "Drums beating cold, English blood runs hot" (that's the way Mick sings it). A MUCH better contrast, as who wants to sing about 'cold English blood' anyway? Ah, the days of AM radio.


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Real Lyric: I bet your mama was a tent show queen The story: Have thought for my entire life this was a mixed reference to Alice in Wonderland and some random British history tidbit. I thought Mick was saying the young lady at issue had a nice smile and was somewhat feline. Vote Now: Misheard is:


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Now, I bet your mama was a tent show queen And all her boyfriends were sweet 16 I'm no school boy but I know what I like You should have heard them, just.


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[Chorus] Ah, get down on brown, brown sugar, how come you taste so good? Ah, get down, get down brown sugar, just like a young girl should [Verse 3] Ah I bet your mama was a tent show queen And.


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I've always liked how the Stones dipped into genuine American culture. As if appropriating swing, country, funk, blues and slave sex for Brown Sugar wasn't enough, "tent-show queen" refers to the traveling entertainment cultures of the 19th century. Of course they had the morals of carnies—they were carnies. Sex, sex, sex--in a rock'n.


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Tent shows have been an important part of American history since the mid-to-late nineteenth century. In 1927, Don Carle Gillette gave "statistical evidence that the tented drama constituted 'a more extensive business than Broadway and all the rest of the legitimate theatre industry put together.'"


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The famous chorus portrays a non-consensual sex encounter between the violent master and a young female slave, while possibly also alluding to heroin use. The Rolling Stones said they would retire.


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And I bet your mama was a tent show queen And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen I'm no school boy but I know what I like You should have heard them just around midnight Brown sugar, how come you taste so good, baby? Brown sugar, just like a young girl should, yeah I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, woo How come you, how come you dance so good?


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When black-run minstrel tent shows and their female impersonators took over, they sometimes perpetuated those characters, though they also added more dignified ones, just as they sang some of the "coon" songs and re-enacted jokes and scenarios from that ugly past. Scholar J.T. Lhamon reads Little Richard's act as a "Sambo" figure.


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'I Bet Your Mama Was a Tent-Show Queen' By Carl Wilson Fifty years ago, a gay, cross-dressing, black singer named Jackie Shane scored a surprise radio hit in what was then staid and uptight Toronto. A few years later, he disappeared. On Shane's legacy, and the under-appreciated gifts he gave to a sometimes self-congratulatory city. Music


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I bet your mama was a tent show queen And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like You shoulda heard me just around midnight Brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby? Ah, brown sugar just like a young girl should, yeah I said yeah, yeah, yeah, woo How come you. how come you taste so good?


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And I bet your mama was a tent show queen And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen I'm no school boy but I know what I like You should have heard them just around midnight Brown sugar, how come you taste so good, baby? Brown sugar, just like a young girl should, yeah I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, woo How come you, how come you dance so good?


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I bet your mama was a tent show queen And all her boyfriends were sweet 16 I'm no school boy but I know what I like You should have heard them just around midnight Brown Sugar, how come you.


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What's a tent show queen? That sparks thoughts of Southern black "tent shows," traveling variety entertainments under canvas that could either be actual PT Barnum-style circus sideshows or just called circuses in themselves. Whether in tent shows or circuit clubs, drag queens—known as female impersonators - were common. Who sings brown sugar?

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