Verse 1:

Flying across the desert in a TWA

I saw a woman walking across the sand

She been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to L.A.

To get a brown eyed handsome man

Her destination was a brown eyed handsome man



Verse 2:

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 get a brown eyed handsome man

She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man



Chorus:

Way back in history three thousand years

Back every since the world began

There's been a lot of good women shed a tear

For a brown eyed handsome man

That's what the trouble was brown eyed handsome man



Verse 4:

Beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind

Between a doctor and a lawyer man

Her mother told her daughter go out and find yourself

A brown eyed handsome man

Just like your daddy is a brown eyed handsome man



Verse 5:

Arrested on charges of unemployment

He was sitting in the witness stand

The judge's wife called up the district attorney

Said you free that brown eyed man

You want your job you better free that brown eyed man



Chorus:

Way back in history three thousand years

Back every since the world began

There's been a lot of good women shed a tear

For a brown eyed handsome man

That's what the trouble is brown eyed handsome man