Rep. Peterson: ‘Brown sugar, how come you taste so good?’

U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., marked the passage of the $300 billion farm bill with a little "Brown Sugar." At a capitol celebration on Wednesday night, the House Agriculture Committee chairman and his all-congressional bipartisan rock band, The Second Amendments, were joined by legendary keyboardist Chuck Leavell.

Leavell, who currently gigs with the U.K. band The Rolling Stones, owns a tree farm in Georgia and lobbied Peterson for forest conservation provisions in the farm bill.

"You know ‘Brown Sugar?’" asked Peterson, the band’s lead vocalist.

"I think I can handle that," replied Leavell.

The song, off of the Stone’s 1971′s Sticky Fingers, is an interesting choice, to say the least. Fitting in that the farm bill turned out to be a sweet deal for the sugar industry, but also because the song’s lyrics are largely about slavery, which America’s agricultural might was built upon. Of course, the song is also about sex and drugs.

This isn’t the first time The Second Amendments have rocked this tune, though. You can watch the band play at the 2007 National Biodiesel Conference in San Antonio and sing along with the provided lyrics.

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields

Sold in a market down in new orleans.

Scarred old slaver know hes doin alright.

Hear him whip the women just around midnight.

Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good

(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should

A-huh.

Drums beating, cold english blood runs hot,

Lady of the house wondrin where its gonna stop.

House boy knows that hes doin alright.

You should a heard him just around midnight.

Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good

(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a black girl should

A-huh.

I bet your mama was a tent show queen,

and all her boy Friends were sweet sixteen.

Im no schoolboy but I know what I like,

You should have heard me just around midnight.

Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good

(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said

Oh just like a, just like a black girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said

Oh just like, just like a black girl should.