A Pair of Brown Eyes Chords by Christy Moore

[Start]

[Verse]
D                                 
■ One summer evening drunk as hell
Em          G              
I sat there nearly lifeless
D                            
An old man in the corner sang
Em              B      A   
Where the water lilies grow
D                           
■ On the jukebox Johnny sang
B             G          
About a thing called love
D                        A             G   
And it's how are you kid ■ What's your name
            G       
And what do you know
D                                        
In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky
Bm                G     
I lay down on the ground
Asus4 D                         
The   arms and legs of other men
Em   G             A7    
Were scattered all around
D                                            
Some prayed and cursed then cursed and prayed
Bsus4                G        
And then they prayed some more
D                  G    A          
And the only thing that I could see
D                             G    A          D 
Was a pair of brown eyes they were looking at me
                 G                         
When we got back labeled parts one to three
D                              G             
There was no fairer brown eyes waiting for me


[Chorus]
D              A                      
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
D          G                      
A rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
    D          G                      
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
    G                   
For a pair of brown eyes
              D         
For a pair of brown eyes


[Verse]
                D              
I looked at him he looked at me
Em             G           
All I could do was hate him
D                           
While Ray and Philomena sang
Em    A7           
Of my elusive dream
D                                      
I saw the streams and the rolling hills
Em                        G      
Where his brown eyes were waiting
D                   A                   
And I thought about a pair of brown eyes
G                      
That waited once for me
                 D     
That waited once for me
D                                
So drunk as hell I left the place
Em                G                 
Sometimes walking sometimes crawling
D                                     
A hungry sound came through the breeze
Em                  G        
So I gave the walls a talking
    D                          Em 
And I heard the sounds of long ago
             G    
From the old canal
D                  A                     
And the birds were whistling in the trees
D                  G               D
Where the wind was gently laughing ■


[Chorus]
             A                        
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
D          G                      
A rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
D              G                      
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
      G                 
For a pair of brown eyes
              A     D   
For a pair of brown eyes


[Solo]
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[Chorus]
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