A Pair Of Brown Eyes

One summer evening drunk as hell

I sat there nearly lifeless

An old man in the corner sang

Where the water lilies grow

On the jukebox Johnny sang

About a thing called love

And it's "How are you kid? What's your name?

And what do you know?"

In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky

I lay down on the ground

The arms and legs of other men

Were scattered all around

Some prayed and cursed, then cursed and prayed

And then they prayed some more

And the only thing that I could see

Was a pair of brown eyes they were looking at me

When we got back, labeled parts one to three

There was no fairer brown eyes waiting for me

And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go

A rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go

And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go

For a pair of brown eyes

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 dream

I saw the streams and the rolling hills

Where his brown eyes were waiting

And I thought about a pair of brown eyes

That waited once for me

That waited once for me

So drunk as hell I left the place

Sometimes walking, sometimes crawling

A hungry sound came through the breeze

So I gave the walls a talking

And I heard the sounds of long ago

From the old canal

And the birds were whistling in the trees

Where the wind was gently laughing

And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go

A rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go

And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go

For a pair of brown eyes

For a pair of brown eyes