A Pair of Brown Eyes Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[C]One summer evening drunk as hell
[Dm]I sat there nearly [F]lifeless.
An [C]old man in the corner sang,
[Dm]Where the water lilies [G]grow.
[C]On the jukebox Johnny sang,
[Dm]About a thing called [F]love.
[C]And it's "how [F]are you kid?
[G]What's you[C]r name?
[F]And what [Dm]do yo[F]u know?"

[Verse 2]
In [C]blood and death
'neath a screaming sky
[Dm]I lay down on [F]the ground.
The [C]arms and legs of other
men
[Dm]Were scattered all [G]around.
[C]Some prayed and cursed,
then cursed and prayed
And [Dm]then they prayed some [F]more.
And the [C]only [F]thing that [G]I c[C]ould see,
Was a pair [F]of brown eyes they
[G]were looking at [C]me.
When we got back[G],
labeled [F]parts one [C]to three,
There was no fairer [G]brown
eyes wait[F]ing for me.

[Verse 3]
And a [C]rovin' a [F]rovin' a
[G]rovin' I'll [C]go,
A rovin' [G]a rovin' a [F]rovin' I'll [C]go,
And a rovin' [G]a rovin' a [F]rovin' I'll go,
[C]For a p[F]air of [Dm]brown eyes,[F]
For a [G]pair of brown [C]eyes.

[Verse 4]
I looked at him he looked at me,
[Dm]All I could do w[F]as hate him.
While [C]Ray and Philomena sang,
Of [Dm]my elusive dr[G]eam.
[C]I saw the streams and the rolling hills,
Where [Dm]his brown eyes were waiting.
[F]And I tho[C]ught abo[F]ut a p[G]air
[C]of brown eyes,
[F]That waited [Dm]once [F]for me,[Dm]
That [F]waited [G]once for me.[C]

[Verse 5]
So [C]drunk as hell I left the place,
Some[Dm]times walking, sometimes [F]crawling.
A [C]hungry sound came through the breeze,
So I [Dm]gave the walls a talk[F]ing.
And I [C]heard the sounds of long ago,
[Dm]
From the old [F]canal.
And the [C]birds [F]were whistling
[G]in [C]the trees,
Where the [F]wind was [Dm]gently
laugh[F]ing.

[Verse 6]
[C]And a rovin' a [F]rovin' a [G]rovin' I'll [C]go,
A rovin' a [G]rovin' [F]a r[C]ovi[G]n' [F]I'll go,
[C]And a r[F]ov [Dm]in' [F]a ro[Dm]vin'[F] a r[G]ovi[C]n' I'll go,[F][G][C]
[G][F][C][G][F][C]
[F]For a pair [Dm]of br[F]own eyes,
[Dm]For a [F]pair o[G]f[C]
brown eyes.