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Brown-Eyed Handsome Man

as performed by Waylon Jennings

 

Chord Guide
132 D:    xx0232	3    4 G:    3x0003	123 A:   x02220	32 1 C:    x32010

 

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D (4)

Flying across the desert in a TWA

 

I saw a woman walking across the sand

                    D                               G  

She been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to L.A.

                A                                     D 

To get a brown-eyed handsome man

                                     C                                   D (2)

Her destination was a brown-eyed handsome man

 

D (4)

Milo Venus was a beautiful lass

 

She had the world in the palm of her hand

              D                                  G 

But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match

                 A                                   D

To get a brown eyed handsome man

                                              C                                       D (2)

She fought and won herself a brown-eyed handsome man

 

Chorus:

 G (4)

Way back in history three thousand years

        C                                      D

Back ever since the world began

                           D                               G

There's been a whole lot of good women shed a tear

             A                                      D

For a brown-eyed handsome man

                                             C                                    D (2)

That's what the trouble was brown eyed handsome man

 

D (4)

Beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind

 

Between a doctor and a lawyer man

         D                                    G

Her mother told her daughter go out and find yourself

       A                                  D    

A brown-eyed handsome man

                                      C                                      D (2)

Just like your daddy is a brown-eyed handsome man

 

D (4)

Arrested on charges of unemployment

 

He was sitting in the witness stand

       D                                     G 

The judge's wife called up the district attorney

                  A                                   D

Said you free that brown-eyed man

                                             C                                   D (2)

You want your job you better free that brown-eyed man

 

Chorus

 

This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.