This song is on Buddy Holly's 'Reminiscing' Album
released in 1963 and it hit the top 5 in the UK.
Chuck Berry wrote & recorded BHM in 1956 and hit the charts
with it in 1957.
That same year Buddy Holly did a 'cover' version of BHM.
I've seen Chuck Berry play this in Key of Eb...Waylon Jennings
did it Key of D...Buddy Holly in E. And everybody has a different intro..
so pick what you like. KK.
#1.
E
Arrested on charges of unemployment
he was sitting in the witness stand.
A
The judge's wife called up the District Attorney
B E
said free that brown eyed man..
E D E
You want your job you better free that brown eyed man.
#2.
E
Flying across the desert in a TWA
I saw a woman walking across the sand.
A
She been walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay
B E
to reach a brown eyed handsome man..
E D E
Her destination was a brown eyed handsome man.
#3.
E
Way back in history three thousand years,
back ever since the world began.
A
There's been a whole lot of good women shedding tears
B E
for a brown eyed handsome man..
E D E
A lot of trouble..was a brown eyed handsome man.
#4.
E
The beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
between a doctor and a lawyer man.
A
Her mother told her darling go out and find, yourself
B E
a brown eyed handsome man..
E D E
That's what your daddy is..a brown eyed handsome man.
#5.
E
Milo Venus was a beautiful lass,
she had the world in the palm of her hand.
A
But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match,
B E
to win a brown eyed handsome man..
E D E
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man.
#6.
E
Well, two, three..the count, with nobody on,
he hit a high fly into the stand.
A
Rounding third he was headed for home,
B E
it was a brown eyed handsome man..
E D E
That won the game..it was a brown eyed handsome man.
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
