{"id":1275,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/a-pair-of-brown-eyes"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"a-pair-of-brown-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/a-pair-of-brown-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pair Of Brown Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shane MacGowan
\nOne summer evening drunk to hell
\nI sat there nearly lifeless
\nAn old man in the corner sang
\nWhere the water lilies grow
\nAnd on the jukebox Johnny sang
\nAbout a thing called love
\nAnd it’s how are you kid and what’s your name
\nAnd how would you bloody know<\/p>\n

In blood and death ‘neath a screaming sky
\nI lay down on the ground
\nAnd the arms and legs of other men
\nWere scattered all around
\nSome cursed, some prayed, some prayed then cursed
\nThen prayed then bled some more<\/p>\n

And the only thing that I could see
\nWas a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me
\nBut when we got back, labelled parts one to three
\nThere was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me<\/p>\n

And a rovin’ a rovin’ a rovin’ I’ll go
\nFor a pair of brown eyes<\/p>\n

I looked at him he looked at me
\nAll I could do was hate him
\nWhile Ray and Philomena sang
\nOf my elusive dreams
\nI saw the streams, the rolling hills
\nWhere his brown eyes were waiting
\nAnd I thought about a pair of brown eyes
\nThat waited once for me<\/p>\n

So drunk to hell I left the place
\nSometimes crawling sometimes walking
\nA hungry sound came across the breeze
\nSo I gave the walls a talking
\nAnd I heard the sounds of long ago
\nFrom the old canal
\nAnd the birds were whistling in the trees
\nWhere the wind was gently laughing<\/p>\n

So a rovin’ a rovin’ a rovin’ I’ll go
\nFor a pair of brown eyes
\nFor a pair of brown eyes<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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