A pair of brown
eyes
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- Dm - F - Dm - F - G - C
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F
1. One summer’s evening drunk as hell, I sat there nearly lifeless,
C Dm G
an
old man in the corner sang, where the water lilies grow.
C Dm
F
On the jukebox Johnny sang,
about a thing called love.
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F - G C
F Dm F
"How are you kid? What's your name? And what do you know ?"
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2. In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky,
I lay down on the ground,
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the
arms and legs of other men, were scattered all around.
C
Some prayed and cursed, then
cursed and prayed,
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and
then they prayed some more,
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G C
but
the only thing that I could see,
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F G C
was a
pair of brown eyes they were looking at me.
C G F
C
When we got back, labeled parts one to three,
C G F
there
was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me.
C
F
G
C
And a rovin' a rovin'
a rovin' I'll go,
F
Dm F Dm G C
for a pair of brown eyes, for a
pair of brown eyes.
C Dm
F
3. I looked at him, he looked at me, all I could do was hate him,
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Dm G
while
Ray and Philomena sang, of my elusive dream.
C
I saw the streams and the
rolling hills,
Dm F
where
his brown eyes were waiting,
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F
G C
and I
thought about a pair of brown eyes,
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F Dm G C
that
waited once for me, that waited once for me.
C
4. So drunk as hell I left that place,
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sometimes
walking, sometimes crawling.
C
Dm F
A hungry sound came on the
breeze, so I gave the walls a talking.
C - Dm F
And I heard the sounds of long
ago, from the old canal.
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And the birds were whistling
in the trees,
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as
the wind was gently laughing.
C
F
G
C
And a rovin' a rovin'
a rovin' I'll go,
C G
F C
a rovin'
a rovin' a rovin' I'll go.
C
G F C
And a rovin' a rovin'
a rovin' I'll go,
F
Dm F Dm G C
for a pair of brown eyes, for a
pair of brown eyes.
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(Christy Moore)