Christy Moore – A Pair Of Brown Eyes (Guitar)

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One summer evening drunk to hell I sat there nearly lifeless,

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An old man in the corner sang where the water lilies grow,D

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On the juke box Johnny sang about a thing called love,

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How are you kid, what's your name,

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And what do you know.

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In blood and death 'neath the screaming sky,

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I lay down on the ground,

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The arms and legs of other men,

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Lay scattered all around,

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Some cursed and prayed and prayed and cursed,

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And Then they prayed some more,

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And the only thing that I could see,

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Was a pair of brown eyes looking at me,

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But when we got back labelled parts one to three,

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There was no pair of brown eyes waitin' for me.

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And a rovin' a rovin'  a rovin' I'll go,  (x 3)

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For a pair of brown eyes,

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For a pair of brown eyes.

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I looked at him he looked at me, all I could do was hate him,

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While Ray and Philomena sang of my elusive dream,

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I saw the streams and the rolling hills, where his brown eyes were waiting,

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And I thought about a pair of brown eyes that waited once for me,

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That waited once for me.

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So drunk as hell I left that place sometimes walking sometimes crawling,

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A hungry sound came on the breeze so I gave the walls a good talking.

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I heard the sound of long ago, from the old canal,

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And the birds were whistling in the trees,

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And the wind was gently laughing.

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And a rovin' a rovin'  a rovin' I'll go,  (x 3)

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For a pair of brown eyes,

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For a pair of brown eyes.