Sugar Daddy
from Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell
As played on the Original Cast Recording
Intro solo (on electric guitar):
e|-------------------|---------------------|----------------|----------------|
B|-------------------|---------------------|--7-------------|----------------|
G|-----------6-------|---7--6--------------|----9--7-6------|-----6------9---|
D|---7---9-------7---|---------9---6---7---|------------9---|--9-----7-------|
A|-------------------|---------------------|----------------|----------------|
E|-------------------|---------------------|----------------|----------------|
The B chord in the intro and in the first several verses is played with the following picking pattern:
e|------2-------------------------|
B|-------------4------3---4-------|
G|----------------------------4---|
D|--------------------------------|
A|---2------2------2------2---2---|
E|--------------------------------|
| | | |
At the end of the 2nd and 3rd verse, the B is instead at the 7th fret (marked as B*),
with a slightly different melody
e|--------------------7-----------|
B|------7-------------------------|
G|--------------8---------8-------|
D|----------------------------9---|
A|--------------------------------|
E|---7------7------7------7---7---|
| | | |
INTRO: B
VERSE:
E
I've got a sweet tooth
B
for licorice drops and jelly roll,
E
Hey sugar daddy,
B
Hansel needs some sugar in his bowl.
F#
I'll lay out fine china on the linen
E
And polish up the chrome
B G# E
and if you've got some sugar for me,
F# B
Sugar Daddy, bring it home.
E
Black strap molasses,
B
you're my orange blossom honey bear.
E
Bring me Versace blue jeans
B
black designer underwear.
F#
We'll dress up like the disco-dancing
E
Jetset in Milan and Rome.
B G# E
If you've got some sugar for me,
F# B*
Sugar Daddy, bring it home.
CHORUS:
F# B
Oh the thrill of control,
F# B
Like the rush of rock and roll,
G# C#
Is the sweetest taste that I have known, oh yeah
E F# B
If you got some sugar bring it home.
E
When honey bees go shopping
B
It's something to be seen
E
They swarm to wild flowers
B
And get nectar for the queen
F#
And everything you bring me
E
Got me dripping like honeycomb
B G# E
If you've got some sugar for me,
F# B*
Sugar Daddy, bring it home
CHORUS:
F# B
Oh the thrill of control,
F# B
Like the rush of rock and roll,
G# C#
Is the sweetest taste that I've known, oh yeah
E F# B
If you got some sugar bring it home.
E F# B
Oh come on, Sugar Daddy, bring it home!
Bridge:
G#
Whiskey and French cigarettes
C#
a motorbike with high-speed jets
E F#
a Waterpik, a Cuisinart
B (hold)
and a hypo-allergenic dog
G#
I want all the luxuries of the modern age
C#
Every item on every page
E F# B
In the Lillian Vernon catalogue
Luther & Hedwig Speak: (strum each chord once. Play as barre chords: E on 7th fret, etc)
G#m
Oh baby, something's crossed my mind
C#m
And I was thinking you'd look so fine
E F#
In a velvet dress with heels
B
And an ermine stole.
G#m
Oh, Luther darling, heaven knows
C#m
I've never put on women's clothes
E
Except for once
F# B
My mother's camisole.
E
So you think only a woman
B
can truly love a man
E
Then you buy me the dress I'll be more woman
B
than a man like you can stand.
F#
I'll be your Venus on a chocolate clamshell
E
rising on a marshmallow foam
B G# E
If you've got some sugar for me,
F# B
Sugar Daddy, bring it home (yeee-ha)
F# B
It's our tradition to control,
F# B
like Erich Honecker and Helmut Kohl,
G# C#
From the Ukraine to the Rhone, oh yeah
E F#
Sweet home uber alles,
G#
I'm coming home
E F# B E B
Oh come on, Sugar Daddy, bring me home
