Chuck Berry, Brown Eyed Handsome Man (1958)
Key: :[C#] (w: Chuck Berry)
BASS TIPS: [C#](*4*) //
[C#](*1*) [F#](*1*) [G#](*1*) [C#](*1*) //
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VERSE 1:
[C#] Arrested on charges of unemployment
He was sitting in the witness stand
The judge's wife called up the
[F#] district attorney
Said you
[G#] free that brown eyed
[C#] man
You want your job you better
[F#] free that
[G#] brown eyed
[C#] man
VERSE 2:
[C#] Flying across the desert in a T.W.A.
I saw a woman walking across the sand
She been a-walkin' thirty miles en
[F#] route to Bombay
To get a
[G#] brown eyed handsome
[C#] man
Her destination was a
[F#] brown eyed
[G#] handsome
[C#] man
VERSE 3:
[C#] Way back in history three thousand years
Back ever since the world began
There's been a whole lot of good women
[F#] shed a tear
For a
[G#] brown eyed handsome
[C#] man
That's what the trouble with
[F#] brown eyed
[G#] handsome
[C#] man
INSTRUMENTAL:
VERSE 4:
[C#] Beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
Between a doctor and a lawyer man
Her mother told her daughter go
[F#] out and find yourself
A
[G#] brown eyed handsome
[C#] man
That's what your daddy is a
[F#] brown eyed
[G#] handsome
[C#] man
VERSE 5:
[C#] Milo Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world in the palm of her hand
But she lost both her arms in a
[F#] wrestling match
To get
[G#] brown eyed handsome
[C#] man
She fought and won herself a
[F#] brown eyed
[G#] handsome
[C#] man
INSTRUMENTAL:
VERSE 6:
[C#] Two, three count with nobody on
He hit a high fly into the stand
Rounding third he was
[F#] headed for home
It was a
[G#] brown eyed handsome
[C#] man
That won the game; it was a
[F#] brown eyed
[G#] handsome
[C#] man