0092 – Brown eyed handsome man - Chuck Berry – (1956)

Escrita por Chuck Berry, foi gravada em 16 de abril de 1956 no Universal Recording Studio, em Chicago, Illinois, produzida por Leonard e Phil Chess. Foi lançada em setembro de 1956 no compacto que tinha Too much monkey business no Lado A. Saiu também no disco de estréia de Chuck, chamado After school session, em maio de 1957. Chuck teve a idéia de compor essa música quando visitou áreas de negros e hispanos na California e viu um homem sendo preso e uma mulher gritando com a polícia para soltá-lo. Essa foi sua inspiração. Johnni Johnson tocou o piano. L.C. Davis tocou sax tenor. Willie Dixon tocou o baixo e Fred Below tocou bateria. Chegou ao número 5 dos charts Billboard R&B. Foi regravada por Buddy Holly, Johnny Rivers, Nina Simone, Waylon Jennings, Robert Cray e Paul McCartney, entre outros artistas.

Arrested on charges of unemployment
He was sitting in the witness stand
The judges 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."

Flying across the desert in a TWA,
I saw a woman walkin' 'cross the sand.
She'd been walking 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 shedding tears
All for 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, "Darling go out and find yourself
A brown-eyed handsome man,
Just like your daddy He's a brown-eyed handsome man."

Marlo Venus was a beautiful lass,
She had the world in the palm of her hand
She lost both her arms in a wrestling match
To meet a brown-eyed handsome man,
She fought and won herself a brown-eyed handsome man.

2-3 the count with nobody on
He hit a high fly into the stands
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.

 

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