A Pair Of Brown Eyes – The Pogues

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One	sum	mer evening drunk to hell,

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I	sat	there nearly	lifeless.

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An	old	man in the corner sang

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Where the	wat	er lilies	grow.

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And	on	the jukebox johnny sang

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A-	bout	a thing called	love.

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And it’s	how	are you	kid	and	what’s	your	name,

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And	how	would you bloody	know?

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In	blood	and death ’neath a screaming sky

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I	lay	down on the	ground,

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And the	arms	and legs of other men

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Were	sca	ttered all a-	round.

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Some	cursed,	some prayed, some prayed then cursed,

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Then	pray,	then bled some	more.

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And the	only	thing	that I	could	see

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Was a pair of brown	eyes	that was	looking	at	me.

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But when we got	back,	labelled	parts	one to	three,

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There was no pair of	brown	eyes	wai	ting for	me.

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I	loo	ked at him he looked at me

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All	I	could do was	hate	him,

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While	Ray	and Philomena sang

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Of	my	elusive	dreams.

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I	saw	the streams, the rolling hills

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Where	his	brown eyes were	wai	ting.

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And I	thought	a-	bout	a	pair	of brown	eyes

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That	wai	ted once for	me.

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So	dru	nk to hell I left the place

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Sometimes	craw	ling sometimes	wal	king.

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A	hun	gry sound came across the breeze,

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So I	gave	the walls a	talk	ing.

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And I	hea	rd the sounds of long ago

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From	the old ca-	nal,

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And the	birds	were	whis	tling	in	the	trees

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Where the	wind	was gently	laug	hing.