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?
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 cursed
Then prayed, then
bled 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
And a rovin', a rovin',
a rovin' I'll go
For 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 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
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
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
And a rovin', a rovin',
a rovin' I'll go
And 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