Brown Eyed Handsome Man

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Brown Eyed Handsome Man
recorded by Waylon Jennings
written by Chuck Berry

C
Flying across the desert in a TWA
 
I saw a woman walking across the sand
                                   F
She been a walking thirty miles en route to L.A.
         G7                  C
To get a brown eyed handsome man
                      F                   C
Her destination was a brown eyed handsome man
 
 
Milo Venus was a beautiful lass
 
She had the world in the palm of her hand
                                F
But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match
        G7                  C
To get a brown eyed handsome man
                             F                  C
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man
 
F
Way back in history three thousand years
     C
Back ever since the world began
                                 F
There's been a lot of good women shed a tear
      G7                 C
For a brown eyed handsome man
                            F                   C
That's what the trouble was brown eyed handsome man
 
 
Beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
 
Between a doctor and a lawyer man
                                F
Her mother told her daughter go out and find yourself
  G7                  C
A brown eyed handsome man
                          F                   C
Just like your daddy is a brown eyed handsome man
 
 
Arrested on charges of unemployment
 
He was sitting in the witness stand
                               F
The judge's wife called up the district attorney
         G7                   C
Said you free that brown eyed man
                             F                    C
You want your job you better free that brown eyed man
 
Repeat #3