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One summer's evening drunk as hell I sat there nearly lifeless
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An old man in the corner sang where the waterlilies grow
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And on the jukebox Johnny sang about a thing called love
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how are you kid and what's your name
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and what do you know
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In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky I sat down on the ground
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And the arms and legs of other men were scattered all around
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I cursed and prayed and prayed and cursed and then I prayed 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 there waiting for me.
Chorus:
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And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
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And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
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And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go
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For a pair of brown eyes
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For a pair of brown eyes.
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I looked at him he looked at me all I could do was hate him
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While Ray and Philomena sang of my elusive dream
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I saw the streams, the rolling hills where his brown eyes were waiting
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And I thought about a pair of brown eyes that waited once for me, that waited
once for me.
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So drunk as hell I left the place sometimes crawling sometimes walking
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A hungry sound came cross the breeze so I gave the walls a talking
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And I heard the sounds of long ago from the old canal
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And the birds were whistling in the trees and the wind was gently laughing.
Chorus (twice)