Irish Songs With Easy Chords & Lyrics
A Pair Of Brown Eyes
Shane McGowan
| D | Em | G |
One | summer evening drunk to hell I | sat there nearly | lifeless, |
| D | G | Em |
An | old man in the corner sang where the | water lilies | grow, |
| D | Em | G |
And | on the juke box Johnny sang | about a thing called | love, |
| D | Em | G | D |
And it's | how are you | kid, | whats your | name, |
| G | Em |
And | how would you bloody | know. |
| D |
In | blood and death 'neath the screaming sky, |
| Em | G |
I | lay down on the | ground, |
| D |
And the | arms and legs of other men, |
| G | Em |
Were | scattered all a | round, |
| D | G | D |
Some | cursed some prayed some | prayed then | cursed, |
| G | Em |
Then | prayed and bled some | more, |
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And the | only thing that | I could | see, |
| D | Em | G | D |
Was a | pair of brown | eyes that were | looking at | me, |
| Em | G | D |
But when we got | back labelled | parts one to | three, |
| Em | G | D |
There was no | pair of brown eyes | lookin at | me. |
| Em | G | D |
And a rovin'a | rovin'a | rovin'I'll | go, |
| G | Em |
For a | pair of brown | eyes. |
I looked at him he looked at me,all I could do was hate him,
While Ray and Philomena sang of my elusive dreams,
I saw the streams the rolling hils,where his brown eyes were waiting,
And I thought about a pair of brown eyes that waited once for me.
So drunk to hell I left the place sometimes crawling sometimes walking,
A hungry sound came across the breeze so I gave the walls a talking.
And I heard the sound of long ago,from the old canal,
And the birds were whistling in the trees,
Where the wind was gently laughing.
| D | Em | G | D | G | D |
And | a rovin,a | rovin a | rovin I'll | go for a | pair of brown | eyes, |
| G | D |
For a | pair of brown | eyes. |
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