Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
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Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
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Berry was traveling through a lot of black and latino areas, in his own words:
I didn’t see too many blue eyes
The first verse of the song was inspired by an occasion when Berry saw a West Coast policeman trying to arrest a Hispanic man for loitering until a girl talked him out of the arrest. This...
[Verse 1]
Arrested on charges of unemployment
He was sittin' in the witness stand
The judge's wife called up the district attorney
She said "Free that brown-eyed man
If you want your job you'd better free that brown eyed man"
[Verse 2]
Flyin' across the desert in a TWA
I saw a woman walkin' 'cross the sand
She been walkin' 30 miles en route to Bombay
To meet a brown-eyed handsome man
Her destination was a brown-eyed handsome man
[Verse 3]
Way back in history, 3000 years
In fact, ever since the world began
There's been a whole lotta good women sheddin' tears
Over a brown-eyed handsome man
It's a lot of trouble with a brown-eyed handsome man
[Guitar and Piano Solos]
[Verse 4]
Beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
Between a doctor and a lawyer man
Her mother told her, "Darling, go out and find
Yourself a brown-eyed handsome man
Just like your daddy, he's a brown-eyed handsome man"
[Verse 5]
Marlo Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world in the palm of her hand
She lost both her arms in a wrestling match
To meet a brown-eyed handsome man
She fought and won herself a brown-eyed handsome man
[Verse 6]
Two-three the count with nobody on
He hit a high fly into the stand
Roundin' third, he was headed for home
It was a brown-eyed handsome man
That won the game, it was a brown-eyed handsome man
Brown Eyed Handsome Man was written by Chuck Berry.
Brown Eyed Handsome Man was produced by Phil Chess & Leonard Chess.