[Verse]
             
One summer eve

              
ning drunk to 

            
hell I stood t

              
here nearly li

 
feless
             
An old man in 

              
the corner san

           
g where the wa

            
ter lilies gro

w
             
And on the juk

              
ebox Johnny sa

            
ng about a thi

        
ng called love
             
And it's how a

            
re you kid and

             
 what's your n


ame
             
And how would 

            
you bloody kno

w?

[Verse]
             
In blood and d

              
eath 'neath a 

              
screaming sky 

            
I lay down on 

       
the ground
             
And the arms a

              
nd legs of oth

            
er men were sc

             
attered all ar

  
ound
             
Some cursed, s

              
ome prayed, so

              
me prayed then

             
 cursed then p

             
rayed and bled

       
 some more
             
And the only t

           
hing that I co

     
uld see
             
Was a pair of 

            
brown eyes tha

             
t was looking 

   
at me
             
But when we go

            
t back, labele

             
d parts one to

   
 three
             
There was no p

            
air of brown e

             
yes waiting fo

  
r me
             
And a rovin' a

           
 rovin' a rovi

        
n' I'll go
             
For a pair of 

       
brown eyes

[Instrumental]
            x2

[Verse]
             
I looked at hi

              
m, he looked a

            
t me, all I co

           
uld do was hat

e him
             
While Ray and 

              
Philomena sang

           
 of my elusive

   
 dream
             
I saw the stre

              
ams, the rolli

              
ng hills where

            
 his brown eye

          
s were waiting
             
And I thought 

           
about a pair o

        
f brown eyes 
             
that waited on

     
ce for me

[Verse]
             
So drunk to he

              
ll I left the 

              
place sometime

            
s crawling som

          
etimes walking
             
A hungry sound

              
 came across t

              
he breeze so I

           
 gave the wall

      
s a talking
             
And I heard th

              
e sounds of lo

            
ng ago from th

       
e old canal
             
And the birds 

            
were whistling

        
 in the trees
             
Where the wind

              
 was gently la


ughing

[Outro]
             
And a rovin' a

           
 rovin' a rovi

        
n' I'll go
             
And a rovin' a

           
 rovin' a rovi

        
n' I'll go
             
And a rovin' a

           
 rovin' a rovi

        
n' I'll go
             
For a pair of 

       
brown eyes
             
For a pair of 

      
brown eyes
             
And a rovin' a

           
 rovin' a rovi

        
n' I'll go
             
And a rovin' a

           
 rovin' a rovi

        
n' I'll go
             
And a rovin' a

           
 rovin' a rovi

        
n' I'll go
             
For a pair of 

       
brown eyes
             
For a pair of 

      
brown eyes