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The Pogues

A Pair Of Brown Eyes

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“A Pair of Brown Eyes” is a single by The Pogues, their first to make the UK Top 100, peaking at Number 71. It featured on the band’s second album, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, and was composed by Pogues front man Shane MacGowan, on the melody of “Wild Mountain Thyme”, also known as “Will Ye Go Lassie Go,“ a song by Francis McPeake in a traditional Irish folk style. Read on...

Song lines: ♪ For a pair of brown eyes ... And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go ♫

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Popular in Folk (See Charts): Blowin' In The Wind, Don'T Think Twice It'S Alright, Father And Son, Banana Boat Song, I Want You, Suzanne, The Blower'S Daughter, Vincent, Positively 4th Street, and Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands.

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