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***A Pair Of Brown Eyes - by Shane MacGowan
from the album "Rum Sodomy & The Lash"
A Pair Of Brown Eyes - as perfomed by The Pogues
G Am C
One summer evening drunk to hell I sat there nearly lifeless
G C Am
An old man in the corner sang where the waterlilies grow
G Am C
And on the jukebox Johnny sang about a thing called love
G Am
and it's how are you kid
C G
and whats your name
C Am
and how would you bloody know
In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky
I lay down on the ground
And the arms and legs of other men
Were scattered all around
Some cursed some prayed some prayed then cursed
Then prayed and bled some more
And the only thing that I could see
G Am C G
Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me
G Am C G
But when we got back labelled parts one to three
G Am C G
There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me
G Am C G
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
G Am C G
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
G Am C G
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
C Am
For a pair of brown eyes
C D G
For a pair of brown eyes
Inst |C |C Am|C |C Am||
I looked at him he looked at me all I could do was hate him
While Ray and Philomena sang of my elusive dream
I saw the streams the rolling hills where his brown eyes were waiting
And I thought about a pair of brown eyes that waited once for me
So drunk to hell I left the place sometimes crawling sometimes walking
A hungry sound came across the breeze so I gave the walls a talking
And I heard the sounds of long ago from the old canal
And the birds were whistling in the trees where the wind was gently laughing
Chorus
Outro |G Am C G|G Am C G|G Am C G|C Am |C D G|C G Am7 G||
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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SLIPKNOT FUCING Rhythm Player |
#1 by SLIPKNOT FUCING RULES!!!! v at Feb 23, 1973 at 7:00 PM EST |
| He's also saying that he doesn't need anyone else's hell, he'll find his own thank you very much. There's a great sense of place and time here also with the mix of the old man not able to let go of the past and the young guy not able to cope with the present. Unless you've spent a lot of time in pubs and know that Irish thirst then it's hard to get inside the picture that Shane can paint. | |
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Cohen Wanna Be |
#2 by Cohen B at Sep 23, 1980 at 10:45 PM EST |
| Androgynous has it dead on. Shane can spin the most amazing dark tales of love and loss. | |
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Zach Average |
#3 by Zach at Dec 21, 1983 at 7:19 AM EST |
| Sir commenting slag is right there are two narraters. No way is this about a vision that has scarred somone for life. The insert to the Very Best of The Pougues, where I reckognise Sir_commenting_slag's comments from, supports this idea. | |
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Derek Average |
#4 by Derek Lamberty at Jun 12, 1994 at 2:38 AM EST |
| This song is a vision of hell in the midst of life...it has two narrators, one an ageless war veteran who cannot forget the "blood and death beneath the screaming sky". The other narrator being beinga young man thinking of his loved one far away | |
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bobby Rhythm Player |
#5 by bobby volm at Feb 27, 2000 at 9:45 PM EST |
| Isn't it that the first narrator walks into a pub after a fight with his girl, hoping to drink himself into oblivion when this war veteran starts burning his ear off with his war stories, parts of which are recollected in the song. the man just wants the veteran to piss off, but the old mans words come back and haunt him on his way home. I don't have the booklet to "the rest of the best" but i think i heard that somewhere | |
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patrick Wanna Be |
#6 by patrick at Feb 27, 2003 at 2:59 AM EST |
| yeah. it says that in the booklet of "the rest of the best" | |
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