Christy Moore - A Pair Of Brown Eyes Lyrics

R. I. P all the men and women who died for ourso called freedom

I love how Christy loves Shane.

What is this song about anyway?

“It’s just about a guy getting pissed at a bar round here,” says Shane nonchalantly. “He’s getting pissed because he’s broken up with this bird and… you know how it is when you just go into a pub on your own to drink and it’s really quiet and you get this old nutter who comes over and starts rambling on you. So this old guy starts on about how he came back from the war, the First World War. Or the Second. One of them anyway. And he tells him about the ship he had out there and how he got out and came back and this girl had fucked off with someone else, a girl with a pair of brown eyes. Which is the same situation as the young guy sitting there listening to all this rubbish and the juke box playing Johnny Cash and Ray Lyman and Philomena Begley, classic London juke box tracks. And in the end he gets to the stage where he says fuck it, and he goes stumbling out of the pub and he walks along the canal and starts feeling really bad, on the verge of tears, and he starts realising that the old guy has had a whole fucking lifetime of that feeling, going through the war and everything, but his original reaction is to hate him and despise him. I’m not saying he goes back and starts talking to him but you know…”

Shane has inspired us all

Gets in your soul so magic

Shane Macgowan international treasure .Christy does him proud

and a roaming I go

Pure magic its an Irish thing.

different class almost effortless legend god bless u christy

Amazing

no. thankyou :)

Briljant!!

one of the best folk songs ever

Its a rebel song budy

@Joe Soap its a folk song moron

Magic wee man, that's a tonic.

these guys are the bollocks ☘ pat t

One summer evening drunk as 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 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
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 dream
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
For a pair of brown eyes.

keep this song going; love it forever,

Thanks I’ve no ears

grumpy fucker

+Delicious Deefxx'## off

Delicious Dee he was being sarcastically funny you dull closed minded fool

This is beautiful!! :D 

I remember dancing around the kitchen table with my dad when he was a good person but now its gone this song brings back so many emotional feelings. I was 4 at the last time we danced and now im 13 so well done 😢💔

Jordan Gainey i fell it too brother its an emotional song ... brings on feelings for everyone ... no matter what situation

"And the birds were whistling in the trees
and the wind was gently laughing"
If that is not poetry, what is?

And drunk as hell I left that place, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling.
A hungry sound came upon the breeze,
I gave the walls a good talking
And I heard the sounds of long ago, from the old canal

that's poetry

@Trev Moran I think that line works perfectly after hearing the first part of the story-- the guy has a snippet of memory on his drunken walk home - so great

"are the mushrooms kicking in?" Cheeky feck.

"are the mushrooms kicking in?" Cheeky feck.

assistantto007 Little Sheila

Christy carries a reputation for wanting his audiences to listen [esp. at the outset] and U guess these guys were louder than he liked

Awesome

Alexander Clarke not Jim ... Sheila

Who's not Jim?

Fair play to you christy

None whatsoever...!

man, it is true good singing. And wish we had Pogues back too playing and singing it. This is so pure Irish!

Just pure class..

absolutely fukin brilliant,,,awesome

Thank God for the old days, where great musicians played. They had class in singing and playing and none better than Christy and Declan. When you think of the "shite" that we see nowadays they would never have got through the auditions. Great singing, great guitars and great audience too.
This is just one great post on youtube.

From Derry City, God bless scotland or should i say caledonia!!! My favourite people in the world! We are all celts!!!

doire7 we are the Celts we are the Celts we are we are we are the Celts !;;;; Sheila not Jim

Hear Hear! Great to see the Derry boys (James McClean and Shane Duffy) doing so well for the ROI football team, BTW...

"i like your style"

No costume changes, no crotch-grabbing, no pyrotechnics, no obscenities. Just genuine emotion and an undenible connection with the audience.

Flike I like you're comment . little she xx

More people should be listen to christy Moore as he's a great man :D

wat does dat guy shout at 0.04, im on your side or somerhing

Fabulous, Christy is king!

some poet!

wonderful!!! Listening to his voice brings about a sense of community and of a joy for the diversity of culture in the artistry of songs.