A Pair Of Brown Eyes

Capo I


    C
One summer's evening drunk as hell,
  D                F
I sat there nearly lifeless.
   C
An old man in the corner sang,
          D            F
Where the water lilies grow.
C
On the jukebox Johnny sang,
D                    F
About a thing called love.
 C           F    G           C
"How are you kid? What's your name?
F        D      F
And what do you know?"


   C
In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky,
  D               F
I lay down on the ground.
    C
The arms and legs of other men,
     D             F
Were scattered all around.
     C
Some prayed and cursed, then cursed and prayed,
    D                     F
And then they prayed some more.
        C    F          G       C
But the only thing that I could see,
      C             F              G          C
Was a pair of brown eyes they were looking at me.
C           G              F            C
When we got back, labelled parts one to three,
          C          G          F           C
There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me.


chorus

      C        F        G           C
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go,
      F    D        F
For a pair of brown eyes,
      F    G        C
For a pair of brown eyes.


  C
I looked at him he looked at me,
    D              F
All I could do was hate him.
      C
While Ray and Philomena sang,
   D          F
Of my elusive dreams.
  C
I saw the streams and the rolling hills,
      D                   F
Where his brown eyes were waiting.
      C       F       G             C
And I thought about a pair of brown eyes,
     F      D        F
That waited once for me,
     F      G        C
That waited once for me.


   C
So drunk as hell I left that place,
          D                  F
Sometimes walking, sometimes crawling.
  C
A hungry sound came on the breeze,
     D                F
So I gave the walls a talking.
  C
I heard the sounds of long ago,
D               F
From the old canal.
        C          F         G      C
And the birds were whistling in the trees,
       F        D      F
As the wind was gently laughing.


chorus (2x)


      C        F        G           C
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go,
  C        G        F           C
A rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go,
      C        G        F           C
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go,
      F    D        F
For a pair of brown eyes,
      F    G        C
For a pair of brown eyes.