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Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Buddy Holly
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Written by: Chuck Berry
Holly's version recorded 1956/57
Released on "Reminiscing" (1963)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
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INTRO
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|Intro|
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[Verse 1]
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Arrested on charges of unemployment
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He was sittin' in the witness stand
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The judge's wife called up the district attorney
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Said, "Free that brown-eyed man
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If you want your job, you'd better free that brown-eyed man."
[Verse 2]
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Flyn' across the desert in the TWA
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I saw a woman walking across the sand
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She'd been walkin' 30 miles en route to Bombay
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To meet a brown-eyed handsome man
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Her destination was a brown-eyed handsome man
[Verse 3]
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Way back in history 3000 years
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Back ever since the world began
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There's been a whole lotta good women shedding tears
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For a brown-eyed handsome man
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A lot of trouble for a brown-eyed handsome man
[Solo]
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[Verse 4]
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Well, the beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
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'tween a doctor and a lawyer man
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Her mother told her, "Darlin', go out
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And find yourself a brown-eyed handsome man
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That's what your daddy is, a brown-eyed handsome man."
[Verse 5]
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Milo de Venus was a beautiful lass,
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She had the world in the palm of her hand,
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But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match
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To get a brown-eyed handsome man
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She fought and won herself a brown-eyed handsome man
[Verse 6]
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Two, three, the count with nobody on
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He hit a high fly into the stand
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Round the third he was headin' for home
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He was a brown-eyed handsome man
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That won the game, he was a brown-eyed handsome man
[Solo]
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