Buddy Holly
Brown Eyed Handsome Man (recorded 1956/57)
(Chuck Berry)
Released on "Reminiscing" (1963)
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| INTRO |
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Arrested on charges of unemployment
He was sittin in the witness stand
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The judge's wife called up the district attorney
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To say "free that brown eyed man"
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If you want your job you'd better free that brown eyed man.
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Flyn' across the desert in the TWA
I saw a woman walking across the sand
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She been walkin' 30 miles en route to Bombay
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To meet a brown eyed handsome man
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Her destination was a brown eyed handsome man.
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Way back in history 3000 years
Back ever since the world begin
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There's been a whole lotta good women shed a tear
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For a brown eyed handsome man
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A lot of trouble for a brown eyed handsome man.
SOLO
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Beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
'tween a doctor and a lawyer man
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The mother told the daughter "go out and find
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Yourself a brown eyed handsome man"
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That's what your daddy was: a brown eyed handsome man.
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Milo Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world at the palm of her hand
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But she lost both the arms in a wrestling match
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To get a brown eyed handsome man
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She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man.
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Two, three, the count with nobody on
He hit a high fly into the stand
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Round the third he was headin' for home
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He was a brown eyed handsome man.
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That won the game he was a brown eyed handsome man
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