Brown Eyes (For Joe Shheran)-Christy Moore

[ti:Brown Eyes (For Joe Shheran)] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Collection Part Two] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Brown Eyes (For Joe Shheran) - Christy Moore [00:16.78]One summer evening drunk as hell [00:19.69] [00:20.71]I sat there nearly lifeless [00:23.37] [00:25.00]An old man in the corner sang [00:27.85] [00:28.76]Where the water lilies grow [00:31.30] [00:33.60]On the jukebox Johnny sang [00:36.50] [00:37.38]About a thing called love [00:39.50] [00:41.87]"how are you kid [00:42.59] [00:44.01]What's your name [00:44.66] [00:45.69]And what do you know " [00:47.62] [00:49.31]In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky [00:52.62] [00:53.46]I lay down on the ground [00:55.95] [00:57.69]The arms and legs of other men [01:00.70] [01:01.68]Were scattered all around [01:04.11] [01:05.56]Some prayed and cursed [01:07.70]Then cursed and prayed [01:08.91] [01:09.66]And then they prayed some more [01:12.18] [01:13.89]And the only thing that I could see [01:17.26] [01:18.02]Was a pair of brown eyes [01:19.83]They were looking at me [01:21.39] [01:22.17]When we got back [01:23.53]Labeled parts one to three [01:25.02] [01:26.07]There was no fairer brown eyes waiting for me [01:29.34] [01:30.16]And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go [01:34.05]For a pair of brown eyes [01:36.51] [01:38.31]For a pair of brown eyes [01:40.71] [01:44.42]I looked at him he looked at me [01:47.51] [01:48.50]All I could do was hate him [01:51.36] [01:52.74]While Ray and Philomena sang [01:55.59] [01:56.55]Of my elusive dream [01:58.68] [02:00.66]I saw the streams and the rolling hills [02:04.09] [02:04.71]Where his brown eyes were waiting [02:07.28] [02:08.91]And I thought about a pair of brown eyes [02:13.01]That waited once for me [02:15.38] [02:17.07]That waited once for me [02:19.49] [02:23.07]So drunk as hell I left the place [02:26.37] [02:26.94]Sometimes walking sometimes crawling [02:30.32] [02:31.59]A hungry sound came through the breeze [02:35.33]So I gave the walls a talking [02:38.02] [02:39.64]And I heard the sounds of long ago [02:42.67] [02:44.73]From the old canal [02:46.04] [02:47.77]And the birds were whistling in the trees [02:51.09] [02:51.89]Where the wind was gently laughing [02:54.16] [02:56.01]And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go [02:59.31] [03:00.16]A rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go [03:03.47] [03:04.06]And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go [03:07.58] [03:08.18]For a pair of brown eyes [03:10.95] [03:12.11]For a pair of brown eyes [03:14.77] [03:18.50]And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go [03:21.76] [03:22.36]A rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go [03:25.76] [03:26.42]And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go [03:30.28]For a pair of brown eyes [03:33.12] [03:34.38]For a pair of brown eyes