A Pair Of Brown Eyes

[Guest]

Re: Shane's girlfriend i believe that bit is true ... or at least the Brown Eyes Shane visualises when he sings the chorus belong to Nips bass player Shanne Bradley. http://www.thenips.com

[MissWalshy]

small secret I often sing this song when I'm very intoxicated.

[Bottle_of_Smoke]

any one know link where I can watch the video?

thats illegal(and a lot of fan sites ban users who speak of filetrading etc but the poguevision vhs can be bought quite cheap in hmv etc

[DzM]

any one know link where I can watch the video?

thats illegal(and a lot of fan sites ban users who speak of filetrading etc but the poguevision vhs can be bought quite cheap in hmv etc

Not necessarily. There are many legal ways to watch videos and listen to music on the Internet. This person didn't actually specify an illegal source - just a source of any kind.

Regarding illegal trading - I really don't mind if people discuss what exists. I draw the line at requesting, offering, and generally making arrangements for swapping. There a numerous ways those arrangements can be made without putting me or this web site at risk of a "Cease And Decist" letter followed by a "See you in court" letter.

[Shillaly Bro]

I heard that this song has a fairly interesting subject matter, and most of us )including myself I fear) are missing the whole meaning of this tune. Anyone feel like clarifying this?

[Zuzana]

Shane's clarification isn't enough?

"It's just about a guy getting pissed at a bar round here," says Shane nonchalantly. "He's getting pissed because he's broken up with this bird and... you know how it is when you just go into a pub on your own to drink and it's really quiet and you get this old nutter who comes over and starts rambling on you. So this old guy starts on about how he came back from the war, the First World War. Or the Second. One of them anyway. And he tells him about the ship he had out there and how he got out and came back and this girl had fucked off with someone else, a girl with a pair of brown eyes. Which is the same situation as the young guy sitting there listening to all this rubbish and the juke box playing Johnny Cash and Ray Lyman and Philomena Begley, classic London juke box tracks. And in the end he gets to the stage where he says fuck it, and he goes stumbling out of the pub and he walks along the canal and starts feeling really bad, on the verge of tears, and he starts realising that the old guy has had a whole fucking lifetime of that feeling, going through the war and everything, but his original reaction is to hate him and despise him. I'm not saying he goes back and starts talking to him but you know... "
(from an interview with Shane, Pogueology, Folk Roots, August 1987, published at Poguetry.com website)

[Benno]

yeah that's what i understood it to be about almost exactly

[dawsonn]

yeah right, your a funny man

[Benno]

goo goo ga joob

[dsweeney]

A friend of mine says she met Shane at a festival in Ireland years ago. He told her that the " pair of brown eyes" referred to in the song are about the guy's dog. That it's about a drunken old guy reminiscing about walking his dog back home in Ireland in the " rolling hills where HIS brown eyes were waiting..and I thought about a pair of brown eyes, that waited once for me ". The HIS brown eyes always threw me but this makes perfect sense to me. Probably bollocks but it's how I hear the song now.

[PistolPaddyGarcia]

so johnny cash is meant?

"And on the jukebox johnny sang"

[philipchevron]

so johnny cash is meant?

"And on the jukebox johnny sang"

One of his hit singles was "A Thing Called Love"