A Pair Of Brown Eyes

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    One summer’s evening drunk as hell, I sat there nearly lifeless,
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    an old man in the corner sang, where the water lilies grow.
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    On the jukebox Johnny sang, about a thing called love.
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    "How are you kid?        What's your name? And what do you know?"

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    In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky, I lay down on the ground,
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    the arms and legs of other men, 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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    but the only thing that I could see,
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    was a pair of brown eyes they were looking at me.
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    When we got back, labeled parts one to three,
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    there was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me.

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And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go,
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for a pair of brown eyes, for a pair of brown eyes.

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    I looked at him, he looked at me, all I could do was hate him,
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    while Ray and Philomena sang, 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, that waited once for me.

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    So drunk as hell I left that place,
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    sometimes walking, sometimes crawling.
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    A hungry sound came on the breeze, so I gave the walls a talking.
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    And I heard the sounds of long ago,         from the old canal.
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    And the birds were whistling in the trees,
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    as the wind was gently laughing.

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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, for a pair of brown eyes.