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.
Arrested on charges of unemployment
he was sitting in the witness stand.
The judge's wife called up the District Attorney
said free that brown eyed man..
You want your job you better free that brown eyed man.
#2.
Flying across the desert in a TWA
I saw a woman walking across the sand.
She been walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay
to reach a brown eyed handsome man..
Her destination was a brown eyed handsome man.
#3.
Way back in history three thousand years,
back ever since the world began.
There's been a whole lot of good women shedding tears
for a brown eyed handsome man..
A lot of trouble..was a brown eyed handsome man.
#4.
The beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
between a doctor and a lawyer man.
Her mother told her darling go out and find, yourself
a brown eyed handsome man..
That's what your daddy is..a brown eyed handsome man.
#5.
Milo Venus was a beautiful lass,
she had the world in the palm of her hand.
But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match,
to win a brown eyed handsome man..
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man.
#6.
Well, two, three..the count, with nobody on,
he hit a high fly into the stand.
Rounding third he was headed for home,
it was a brown eyed handsome man..
That won the game..it was a brown eyed handsome man.
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.