Beautiful Brown Eyes

Refrain:
Beautiful beautiful brown eyes 
Beautiful beautiful brown eyes 
Beautiful beautiful brown eyes 
I’ll never love blue eyes again 

1. Willie I love you my darling 
Love you with all my heart 
Tomorrow we might have been married 
But rambling has kept us apart 

* Refrain 

2. Down through the barroom he staggered 
And fell down at the door 
The last words that I heard him utter 
I’ll never see brown eyes no more 

* Refrain


As with most country ballads, this one’s not a happy one.  First collected in 1928 and a hit in 1949 for the Delmore Brothers and 1951 for Rosemary Clooney.  Recorded by many others, as well.