A Pair Of Brown Eyes Lyrics - Rum Sodomy & The Lash - Pogues

One summer evening drunk to hell 

I stood there nearly lifeless 

An old man in the corner sang 

Where the water lilies grow 

And on the jukebox johnny sang 

About a thing called love 

And its how are you kid and whats your name 

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 

Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me 

But when we got back, labeled parts one to three 

There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me 

And a rovin a rovin a rovin Ill go 

For a pair of brown eyes 

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 

And a rovin a rovin a rovin Ill go 

For a pair of brown eyes