Johnny Cash

Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Johnny Cash


Tom: C

(intro) C

      C
1. Arrested on charges of unemployment,

    he was sitting in the witness stand,
                                    F
    the judge's wife looked at the district attorney,
              G                    C
    said to free that browned eye man,
                                      F         G         C
    if you want your job you better free that brown eyed man.

          C
2. Hey, flying across the desert in a TWA,

    I saw a woman walking across the sand,
                                        F
    she'd been walking thirty miles en route to Bombay,
                G                  C
    to meet a brown eyed handsome man,
                            F         G        C
    her destination was a brown eyed handsome man.

       C
3. Way back in history three thousand years,

    in fact ever since the world began,
                                            F
    there's been a whole lotta good women shedding tears
             G                  C
    over a brown eyed handsome man,
                               F         G        C
    a lots of trouble with a brown eyed handsome man.

       C
4. a 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
       G                   C
    a brown eyed handsome man,
                                   F         G        C
    just like your daddy, he's a brown eyed handsome man.

              C
5. Well, the Milo de Venus was a beautiful lass,

    she had the world in the palm of her hand,
                                     F
    she lost both of her arms in a wrestling match
              G                   C
    to win a brown eyed handsome man,
                                   F         G        C
    she fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man.

    C
6. Two and three the count with nobody home

    he hit a high flyer into the stand,
                              F
     arounded third he was a-heading for home,
               G                  C
    it was a brown eyed handsome man that won the game,
               F         G        C
    it was a brown eyed handsome man.