A Pair of Brown Eyes

One winter's evening stoned as hell I sat there nearly lifeless While an old man in the corner sang "Where the Waterlilies 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 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 But 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 So a roving a roving a roving I'll go For a pair of brown eyes A pair of brown eyes 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 heard the sounds that followed away Where his brown eyes were waiting And I thought about a pair of brown eyes That waited once for me I thought about a pair of brown eyes A pair of brown eyes So stoned as 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 So a roving a roving a roving I'll go Roving a roving a roving I'll go Roving a roving a roving I'll go For a pair of brown eyes A pair of brown eyes Roving a roving a roving I'll go Roving a roving a roving I'll go Roving a roving a roving I'll go For a pair of brown eyes A pair of brown eyes A pair of brown eyes A pair of brown eyes