The Young Dubliners -- A Pair of Brown Eyes(HD Audio)

Hey there, folks.

Someone requested that I upload this song, and sure enough, it wasn't on YouTube already. So here it is, enjoy.

Do buy the album. These guys are great.

--Lyrics--

One summer evening, drunk to hell, I stood 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 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 o' brown eyes that was looking at me
But when we got back, labeled parts one to three
There was no pair of brown eyes waitin' 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 and the rolling hills where his brown eyes were waitin'
And I thought about a pair of brown eyes, what 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 laughin'
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go(x3) for a pair of brown eyes(x2)
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go(x3) for a pair of brown eyes(x2)

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• Folk
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• Shane
• MacGowan
• Pair
• Brown
• Eyes

[trigonotarbida]

Ahh, thank you.

It's bothered me for two years that this version wasn't on youtube.

It's my favorite song on the album.

[BarbaricGoose]

@trigonotarbida You're welcome. Thanks for reminding me to upload it. Been awhile since I heard the song.

[petercrouch67]

@TheGreyGuard1865 It's about a man who has a row with his woman, and goes to drown his sorrows...only to meet an old man who starts talking about the war and everything (telling him his life story) and how his own girlfriend left him when he came home from the war. The younger man can't be bothered with him at the start and leaves...but thinking back on the conversation it moves him to almost to tears...that old bastard has to live with that feeling all his life

[BarbaricGoose]

@gabriel999red I guess I forgot. It's originally done by Shane MacGowan.

[danaa81]

So bloody beautiful!! .. If you dislike this you deserve to die!

[johnnysad123]

great voice for a great song!!

[eerawb]

"...a hungry sound came across the breeze, so I gave the walls a talking." Fucking beautiful poetry right there son.

[fisherman06100]

very good cover.... but i think the pogues did it alittle better... the raspiness of shane macgowans voice does it alittle more justice, still like the song and all that the young dubliners have done.

[Razken89]

This is a really nice song! Can't stop listening to it. Even though I'm Swedish I totaly love irish music. So much soul in it.

[warpedxmike]

@BarbaricGoose Uhm yeah Shane wrote the song but The Pogues released it.

[LaSombraFilm]

Love this version. Love the Pogues' version. The song is a true classic.

[wqpeb]

Lord hold me down. This is bloody FINE !

[damndawg012]

@hanshotfirst1138 well in this context, im assuming it means that he's traveling around.

[monkeyboylx92]

@hanshotfirst1138 Going out on a limb here. Possibly love himself. It seems that perhaps the old mans story of war, combined with his brown eyes, reminded him of a past love of his own that had brown eyes. The first verse is the old mans story of war, the second is the young man remembering a past love and leaving the bar. "The birds whistling in the tree" could simply symbolize an epiphany of sorts, as you suggested.