Brown Eyed Handsome Man:Johnny Rivers.
Album - At The Whiskey A Go Go - #13 on
BB Hot 200 on IMPERIAL Records in 1964.
INTRO: E
#1.
E
Arrested on charges of unemployment, he was
sitting in the witness stand.
A
The judge's wife called the district attorney
B E
said, you free that brown-eyed man.
B
You want your job, you better free that
E
brown-eyed man.
CHORUS:
E
Way back in history, three thousand years back,
ever since the world began.
A
There's been a whole lot of good women shed a tear
B E
for a brown-eyed handsome man.
B E
A lotta trouble with a brown-eyed handsome man.
#2.
E
Flying across the desert in a TWA I saw a woman
walking across the sand.
A
She been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay
B E
to meet a brown-eyed handsome man.
B E
Her destination was a brown-eyed handsome man.
INTERLUDE: E A B E
#3.
E
Milo Venus was a beautiful lass, she had the world
in the palm of her hand.
A
She lost both her arms in a wrestling match to get
B E
a brown-eyed handsome man.
B E
She fought and won herself a brown-eyed handsome man.
CHORUS:
E
Way back in history, three thousand years back,
ever since the world began.
A
There's been a whole lot of good women shed a tear
B E
for a brown-eyed handsome man.
B E
A lotta trouble with a brown-eyed handsome man.
INTERLUDE: E A B E
OUTRO:
E
Well, three to two the count with nobody on, he hit a
high fly into the stand.
A B
Rounding third he was headed for home, it was a brown
E B
eyed handsome man..that won the game, it was a brown
E
eyed handsome man.
...E A B E...E A B E.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.