Christy Moore - Apair of brown eyes
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One[C] summer evening drunk to hell I[Am] sat there nearly[C] lifeless,
An[C] old man in the corner sang where the[C] water lilies[Am] grow,
And[C] on the juke box Johnny sang[Am] about a thing called[C] love,
And it's[C] how are you[Am] kid,[C]whats your[C] name,
And[C] how would you bloody[Am] know.
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In[C] blood and death 'neath the screaming sky,
I[Am] lay down on the[C] ground,
And the[C] arms and legs of other men,
Were[C] scattered all a[Am]round,
Some[C] cursed some prayed some[C] prayed then [C]cursed,
Then[C] prayed and bled some[Am] more,
And the[C] only thing that[Am] I could[C] see,
Was a[C] pair of brown[Am] eyes that were[C] looking at [C]me,
But when we got[Am] back labelled[C] parts one to[C] three,
There was no[Am] pair of brown eyes[C] lookin at[C] me.
And a rovin'a[Am] rovin'a[C] rovin'I'll[C] go,
For a[C] pair of brown[Am] 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.
And[C] a rovin,a[Am] rovin a[C] rovin I'll[C] go for a[C] pair of brown[C] eyes,
For a[C] pair of brown[C] eyes.