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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Songwriter
Hal Mooney
Hal Mooney
Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Hal Mooney
Hal Mooney
Producer

Lyrics

Arrested on charges of unemployment
He was sitting in the witness stand
The judge's wife called up the district attorney
She said, "Free that brown eyed man
If you want your job, you better free that brown eyed man"
Flyin' 'cross the desert in a TWA
I saw a woman walkin' 'cross the sand
She'd been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay
To meet a brown eyed handsome man
Her destination was a brown eyed handsome man
Way back in history, three-thousand years
In fact, ever since the world began
There's been a whole lotta good women sheddin' tears
Over a brown eyed handsome man
It's a lot of trouble with a brown eyed handsome man
Beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
Between a doctor and a lawyer man
Her mother told her daughter, "Darling, go out and find
Yourself a brown eyed handsome man
Just like your daddy, he's a brown eyed handsome man"
Milo Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world in the palm of her hand
She lost both her arms in a wrestlin' match
To meet a brown eyed handsome man
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man
Two-three, the count, with nobody on
He hit a high fly into the stand
Roundin' third, he was headed for home
It was a brown eyed handsome man
That won the game, it was a brown eyed handsome man
That won the game, it was a brown eyed handsome man
Written by: Chuck Berry
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