A Pair of Brown Eyes

One summer evening drunk to hell I sat 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 it's how are you kid and what's your name And how'd you bloody know? In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky I lay down on the ground As the arms and legs of other men Were scattered all around Some cursed, some prayed, some prayed and 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' I'll 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 dreams I saw the streams, the rolling hills Where his brown eyes were waiting And I thought about a pair of brown eyes What 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 songs 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' I'll go For a pair of brown eyes