Lyrics

[Verse 1] 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? [Verse 2] In blood and death, 'neath a screaming sky I laid down on the ground And the arms and legs of other men Were scattered all around Some cursed, some prayed, some prayed, then blеd Then cursed, then blеd 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 [Chorus] And a rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go For a pair of brown eyes [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] 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 That waited once for me [Verse 4] 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 sounds of long ago From the old canal And the birds were whistling in the trees Where the wind was gently laughing [Chorus] And a rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go A rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go And a rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go For a pair of brown eyes For a pair of brown eyes [Outro] And a rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go A rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go And a rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go For a pair of brown eyes For a pair of brown eyes