Showing posts with label Chuck Berry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chuck Berry. Show all posts

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Arrested On Charges Of Unemployment

Have you ever stopped and listened to just how GREAT this song is?

Chuck Berry - Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (buy album)

Arrested on charges of unemployment
He was sittin' 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

Flying across the desert in a T.W.A.
I saw a woman walking 'cross the sand
She been 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 3,000 years
In fact, ever since the world began
There's been a whole lotta good women sheddin' tears
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

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 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 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
The Million Dollar Quartet took notice:

The Million Dollar Quartet – Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (buy album)

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In other news: You will be happy to know that I finally cured my severe music rut by using Jerry Lee Lewis deep-emersion therapy. A whole lotta the Killer was all it took.

Jerry Lee Lewis - Workin' Man Blues (buy album)