Lyrics to
Brown Eyed Handsome Man

This version of Brown Eyed Handsome Man was released by Waylon Jennings in 1970.

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Flyin’ cross the desert in a TWA
I saw a woman walkin’ cross the sand
She’d been a walkin’ thirty miles on route to LA
To get a brown eyed handsome man.
Her destination was a brown eyed handsome man.

Milo Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world in the palm of her hand
But she lost both her arms in a wrestlin’ match
To get a brown eyed handsome man.
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man.

Way back in hist’ry thee thousand years in fact
Ever since the world began
Been a whole lot of women who sheddin’ tears
For a brown eyed handsome man.
It was the trouble was a brown eyed handsome man.

Beautiful daughter couldn’t make up her mind
Between a doctor and a lawyer man
Her mama told her darlin’ go out and find
Yourself a brown eyed handsome man.
Just like your daddy is a brown eyed handsome man.

Arrested on charges of unemployment
Sittin’ in the witness stand
The Judge’s wife called up the district attorney
She said free that brown eyed handsome man.
If you want your job you better free that brown eyed man.

Way back in hist’ry thee thousand years in fact
Ever since the world began
Been a whole lot of women who sheddin’ tears
For a brown eyed handsome man.
It was the trouble was a brown eyed handsome man…

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Waylon Jennings has released many songs over the years besides Brown Eyed Handsome Man. Waylon Jennings released songs from 1964 to 1972 spanning across albums like JD's, Leavin' Town, Folk-Country, Nashville Rebel, Waylon Sings Ol' Harlan, The One And Only, Love Of The Common People, Only The Greatest, Jewels, Hangin' On, Just To Satisfy You, Country-Folk, Waylon, Singer Of Sad Songs, Don't Think Twice, The Taker/Tulsa, Cedartown, Georgia, and Good Hearted Woman. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Waylon Jennings.

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About Lyrics and Brown Eyed Handsome Man by Waylon Jennings

The lyrics to Brown Eyed Handsome Man are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Waylon Jennings in 1970. Elements of the lyrics to Brown Eyed Handsome Man are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Waylon Jennings and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Brown Eyed Handsome Man back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Brown Eyed Handsome Man by Waylon Jennings in a number of ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Brown Eyed Handsome Man" means the words set to the music of Brown Eyed Handsome Man, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Waylon Jennings. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Brown Eyed Handsome Man and the lyrics to Brown Eyed Handsome Man are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Waylon Jennings who came here looking just for the lyrics to Brown Eyed Handsome Man, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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