Biography:
John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963) is an American writer, actor, and director.
Mitchell was born in El Paso, Texas. The son of a retired general in the U.S. Army, he grew up on army bases and in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he attended Catholic schools. His mother is from Scotland and emigrated to the United States as a young woman.
He wrote Hedwig and the Angry Inch, an off-Broadway musical play about Hedwig, a transgendered rock musician chasing after an ex-lover who plagiarized her songs, in 1998.
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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
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
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