Brown Eyes (hi-lo)

by 19th C. American folk song

Type:: Diatonic
Key:: A
Posted by:: WaltP

BROWN EYES hi-lo
19th C. American folk song
Key: A
Time: 3/4

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 4  -4  5   6 -6  6 -4
Just a year a-go to-day

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 -4  5   -5    6    -6  6  6
When my brown eyes went a-way

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4  -4  5   5   6  -6  6  -4
Up in heav-en, I long to be

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 -4  -4  -4    5   -5  6
Where a brown eyed an-gel

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  5   -4  4
Waits for me

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  7     7    7  -8  7   -6   6
Those brown eyes I love so well

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  7     7    7    -8 -8  7   -6  6
Those brown eyes that I long to see

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 4 -4  5    6   -6     6    -4
How I long for those brown eyes

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 -4    5    -5   6     5   -4  4
Stran-gers they have grown to be