One summer evening drunk to hell   I stood there nearly lifeless   An old man in the corner sang   Where the water lilies grow      And on the jukebox Johnny sang   About a thing called love   And it's how are you kid and what's your name   And how would you bloody know?      In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky   I lay down on the ground   And the arms and legs of other men   Were scattered all around      Some cursed, some prayed, some prayed then cursed   And prayed then bled some more   And the only thing that I could see   Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me   But when we got back, labeled parts one to three   There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me      And a rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go   For a pair of brown eyes      I looked at him, he looked at me   All I could do was hate him   While Ray and Philomena sang   Of my elusive dreams      I saw the streams, the rolling hills   Where his brown eyes were waiting   And I thought about a pair of brown eyes   That waited once for me      So drunk to hell I left the place   Sometimes crawling, sometimes walking   A hungry sound came across the breeze   So I gave the walls a talking      And I heard the sounds of long ago   From the old canal   And the birds were whistling in the trees   Where the wind was gently laughing      And a rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go   A rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go   And a rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go   For a pair of brown eyes   For a pair of brown eyes      And a rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go   And a rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go   And a rovin', a rovin', a rovin' I'll go   For a pair of brown eyes   For a pair of brown eyes