Biography:
Christy Moore, a native of Co. Kildare, Ireland, found fame as a member of the legendary tradition folk band Planxty. Since then he has carved out his own career as a consummate solo performer. In the 1980s Christy teamed up with Donal Lunny to form the innovative Moving Hearts.
Christy Moore started in the music business in the mid-sixties, when his life as a bank clerk was interrupted by a bank strike, and he moved to England. There he became involved in the folk music scene at the time
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- Natives
- Spancil Hill
- The Lakes Of Pontchartrain
- A Pair Of Brown Eyes
- Aisling
- All I Remember
- Allende
- Among The Wicklow Hills
- Apair Of Brown Eyes
- Arthur Macbride
- As I Roved Out
- Back Home In Derry
- Barrowland
- Biko Drum
- Black Is The Colour
- Black Jack County Chain
- Bright Blue Rose
- Casey
- City Of Chicago
- Cliffs Of Dooneen
- Continental Ceili
- Cry Like A Man
- Delirium Tremens
- Does This Train Stop On Merseyside
- Dunnes Stores
- El Salvador
- Fairytale Of New York
- Faithful Departed
- Follow Me Up To Carlow
- Galtee Mountain Boy
- Go Move Shift
- Hey Sandy
- Irish Ways And Irish Laws
- John Odreams
- Johnny Dont Go To Ballincollig
- Joxer Goes To Stuttgart
- Lakes Of Pontchartrain
- Lisdoonvarna And Ill Tell Me Ma
- Little Musgrave
- Mary From Dungloe
- Matty
- Missing You
- Motherland
- My Little Honda 50
- Nancy Spain
- No Time For Love
- North And South Of The River
- On Morecambe Bay
- One Last Cold Kiss
- Only Our Rivers Run Free
- Ordinary Man
- Quiet Desperation
- Reel In The Flickering Light
- Ride On
- Scapegoats
- Smoke And Strong Whiskey
- So Do I
- St Brendans Voyage
- The Boy From Tamlaghduff
- The Contender
- The Craic Was Ninety In The Isle Of Man
- The Curragh Of Kildare
- The Dying Soldier
- The Mad Lady And Me
- The Night Visit
- The Time Has Come
- The Two Conneeleys
- The Voyage
- They Never Came Home
- Tyrone Boys
- Veronica
- Viva La Quinta Brigada
- Weekend In Amsterdam
- Welcome To The Cabaret
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Christy Moore - A Pair Of Brown Eyes (Live at Vicar Street)
[Verse 1]
D Em G
One summer evening drunk to hell I sat there nearly lifeless,
D G Em
An old man in the corner sang where the water lilies grow,
D Em G
And on the juke box Johnny sang about a thing called love,
D Em G Em
How are you kid, what’s your name,
G Em
And what do you know.
[Verse 2]
D
In blood and death 'neath the screaming sky,
Em G
I lay down on the ground,
D
The arms and legs of other men,
G Em
Lay scattered all around,
D G D
Some cursed and prayed and prayed and cursed,
Em G Em
And Then they prayed some more,
D Em G
And the only thing that I could see,
D Em G D
Was a pair of brown eyes looking at me,
Em G D
But when we got back labelled parts one to three,
Em G D
There was no pair of brown eyes waitin’ for me.
[Chorus]
Em G D
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go, x 3
G Em
For a pair of brown eyes.
G D
For a pair of brown eyes.
[Verse 3]
D Em G
I looked at him he looked at me, all I could do was hate him,
D G Em
While Ray and Philomena sang of my elusive dream,
D Em G
I saw the streams and the rolling hills, where his brown eyes were waiting,
Em G D Em D Em
And I thought about a pair of brown eyes that waited once for me,
G D
That waited once for me.
[Verse 4]
D Em G
So drunk as hell I left that place sometimes walking sometimes crawling,
D G Em
A hungry sound came on the breeze so I gave the walls a good talking.
D Em G
I heard the sound of long ago, on the old canal,
Em G D G
And the birds were whistling in the trees,
Em D Em
And the wind was gently laughing.
[Chorus]
Em G D
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go, x 3
G Em
For a pair of brown eyes.
G D
For a pair of brown eyes.
[Repeat to finish]
Thanks to 'Jooshjr81' for submitting the other version of this which I used as a base for this version.
I tried to get as close to the way it sounds when Christy plays it but please comment any errors / feedback
Thanks :)
[Verse 1]
D Em G
One summer evening drunk to hell I sat there nearly lifeless,
D G Em
An old man in the corner sang where the water lilies grow,
D Em G
And on the juke box Johnny sang about a thing called love,
D Em G Em
How are you kid, what’s your name,
G Em
And what do you know.
[Verse 2]
D
In blood and death 'neath the screaming sky,
Em G
I lay down on the ground,
D
The arms and legs of other men,
G Em
Lay scattered all around,
D G D
Some cursed and prayed and prayed and cursed,
Em G Em
And Then they prayed some more,
D Em G
And the only thing that I could see,
D Em G D
Was a pair of brown eyes looking at me,
Em G D
But when we got back labelled parts one to three,
Em G D
There was no pair of brown eyes waitin’ for me.
[Chorus]
Em G D
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go, x 3
G Em
For a pair of brown eyes.
G D
For a pair of brown eyes.
[Verse 3]
D Em G
I looked at him he looked at me, all I could do was hate him,
D G Em
While Ray and Philomena sang of my elusive dream,
D Em G
I saw the streams and the rolling hills, where his brown eyes were waiting,
Em G D Em D Em
And I thought about a pair of brown eyes that waited once for me,
G D
That waited once for me.
[Verse 4]
D Em G
So drunk as hell I left that place sometimes walking sometimes crawling,
D G Em
A hungry sound came on the breeze so I gave the walls a good talking.
D Em G
I heard the sound of long ago, on the old canal,
Em G D G
And the birds were whistling in the trees,
Em D Em
And the wind was gently laughing.
[Chorus]
Em G D
And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go, x 3
G Em
For a pair of brown eyes.
G D
For a pair of brown eyes.
[Repeat to finish]
Thanks to 'Jooshjr81' for submitting the other version of this which I used as a base for this version.
I tried to get as close to the way it sounds when Christy plays it but please comment any errors / feedback
Thanks :)
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