A Pair of Brown Eyes Chords by Christy Moore

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_ When summer's evening drunk as hell [Am] [D] I sat there [F] nearly leafless _
[C] An old man in the corner sang [Dm] Where the water [G] lilies grow _
_ [C] _ On the jukebox Johnny sang [Dm] About a thing [F] called love _
_ [C] How [F] are you kid?
[G] What's [C] your name?
[F] And [Dm] what do [F] you know? _
[G] [C] In blood and debt, near the screaming sky [Dm] I lay down [F] on the ground _
_ [C] The arms and legs of other men [Dm] They scattered _ [G] all around _
Some [C] cursed and prayed and prayed and cursed [Dm] And then they [F] prayed some more
[C] And the [F] only thing [G] that I [C] could see Was a [F] pair of brown [G] eyes looking [C] at me
When we [G] got back, [F] leveled parts [C] one to three There was no [G] pair of brown [F] eyes waiting for me
[C] And a [F]-roving, a-roving, [G] a-roving [C] they'll go A-roving, [G] a [F]-roving, a-roving [C] they'll go
A-roving, [G] a-roving, [F] a-roving [C] they'll go For a [F] pair [Dm] of [F] brown eyes _
For a [G] pair of [C] brown eyes _
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_ _ _ I looked at him, he looked at me [Dm] All I could do [F] was hate him
[C] While rain fell, the mena sang Of [Dm] my _ [G] elusive dream
_ I [C] saw the streams and the rolling hills [Dm] Where his brown [Em] eyes were [F] waiting
_ [C] And I [F] thought about [G] a pair [C] of brown eyes [F] That [Dm] waited once for me
_ [D] _ [F] That waited [G]
once [C] for me _ _ _ _ _
So through this hell I left the place [Dm] Sometimes walking, _ [G] [F] sometimes crawling _
[C] A hungry sound came on the breeze So [Dm] I gave the walls a [F] good talking
I [C] heard the sounds of long _ ago [Dm] _ On the old [F] canal _ _
[C] And the birds [F] were whistling [G] in [C] the trees [F] And the wind [Dm] was [F] gently laughing
[C] And a [F]-roving, a [G]-roving, a [C]-roving they'll go A [G]-roving, a [F]-roving, a-roving [C] they'll go
A [G]-roving, a-roving, [F] a-roving [C] they'll go For [F] a [Dm] pair of [F] brown eyes
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[F] For a [G] pair of [C] brown eyes
Who's singing now?
Who's singing now?
_ _ _ A-roving, [F] _
[G] a-roving, [C] a-roving they'll go A-roving, [G] a-roving, [F] _ _ [C] _ a-roving they'll go
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[F] For _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [Am] a pair of [F] brown eyes _ For a [G] pair of [C] brown eyes _ _ _ _ _
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