Irish Folksongs A Pair Of Brown Eyes Lyrics

A Pair Of Brown Eyes Lyrics

One summer evening drunk to hell

I sat there nearly lifeless. 

And
old man in the corner sang

where the water lilies grow.

And on the
jukebox Johnny sang

about a thing called love.

And it's how you are
kid and

  what's your name.

and how would you bloody know.



In blood and death 'neath a

  screaming sky

I lay down on the
ground.

And the arms and legs of other men

were scattered all
around.

Some cursed some prayed,

  some prayed then cursed.

The prayed then bled some more.

And the only thing that I could see

was a pair of brown eyes that was

  looking at me.



But
when we got back

  labelled parts one to three

there was no pair of
brown eyes 

  waiting for me.

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

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 sand

  of my
elusive dreams.

I saw the streams the rolling hills

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
sounds of long ago

  from the old canal.

And the birds were
whistling

  in the trees

Where the wind was gently laughing.