Subj : Re: Musical memories
To   : August Abolins
From : George Pope
Date : Sun Oct 17 2021 13:44:54

 >  GP> It's clearly a song extolling a sweet brown skinned girl;
 >  GP> how is that a negative?

 > I think the problem some people have with the song is the  
 > reference to slavery in the early verses.

That's my spotty memorty at work -- I just looked em up -- yup, not too cool,
but it's lyrical poetry, not a "how to" manual.

Maybe that frst verse is just a flashback to why there's an African American
girl to fall in love with -- it could be seen as a flashback lament.

Most or all songs are meant to be interpreted by the listener.  It's telling
when people see only negatives.

I don't say "they mean ..."; the most I can truthfuly say is, "it could
mean..." (based on the actual words &/or what the writers have said about them-
-I look them up on occasion)

per songfacts.com:

According to the book Up And Down With The Rolling Stones by Tony Sanchez, all
the slavery and whipping is a double meaning for the perils of being "mastered"
by Brown Heroin, or "Brown Sugar." The drug cooks brown in a spoon.

I can see that --it was the fashionable thing to use double meanings in lyrics.

The Beatles began it (then cleared up some misunderstandings & assumptions in
"Glass Onion")


Your friend,

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Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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