Buddy Holly – Brown Eyed Handsome Man (Ukulele)

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This song is on Buddy Holly's 'Reminiscing' Album released in 1963 and it hit the top 5 in the UK. Chuck Berry wrote & recorded BHM in 1956 and hit the charts with it in 1957. That same year Buddy Holly did a 'cover' version of BHM. I've seen Chuck Berry play this in Key of Eb...Waylon Jennings did it Key of D...Buddy Holly in E. And everybody has a different intro.. so pick what you like. KK. #1.
E
Arrested on charges of unemployment
he was sitting in the witness stand.
                               A
The judge's wife called up the District Attorney 

     B                    E
said free that brown eyed man..

E                            D                    E
You want your job you better free that brown eyed man.
#2.
E
Flying across the desert in a TWA
I saw a woman walking across the sand.
                              A
She been walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay

           B                   E
to reach a brown eyed handsome man.. 

E                     D                   E
Her destination was a brown eyed handsome man.
#3.
E
Way back in history three thousand years,
back ever since the world began.
                                       A 
There's been a whole lot of good women shedding tears 

      B                   E
for a brown eyed handsome man..

E                       D                   E
A lot of trouble..was a brown eyed handsome man.
#4.
E
The beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
between a doctor and a lawyer man.
                               A
Her mother told her darling go out and find, yourself 

  B                   E
a brown eyed handsome man..

E                            D                   E
That's what your daddy is..a brown eyed handsome man.
#5.
E
Milo Venus was a beautiful lass,
she had the world in the palm of her hand.
                                A
But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match,

         B                   E
to win a brown eyed handsome man..

E                            D                   E
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man.
#6.
E
Well, two, three..the count, with nobody on,
he hit a high fly into the stand.
                      A
Rounding third he was headed for home,

         B                   E
it was a brown eyed handsome man..

E                           D                   E
That won the game..it was a brown eyed handsome man.
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.