A Pair of Brown Eyes Chords by Christy Moore

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[Verse]
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■ One summer evening drunk as hell
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I sat there nearly lifeless
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An old man in the corner sang
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Where the water lilies grow ■ 
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■ On the jukebox Johnny sang
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About a thing called love
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And it's ■ how are you kid What's your name
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And what do you know
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In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky
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I lay down on the ground
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The arms and legs of other men
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Were scattered all around
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Some prayed and cursed then cursed and prayed
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And then they prayed some more
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And the only thing that I could see
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Was a pair of brown eyes they were looking at me


[Chorus]
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When we got back labeled parts one to three
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There was no fairer brown eyes waiting for me
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And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
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A rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
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And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
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For a pair of brown eyes
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For a pair of brown eyes


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


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