Coffee Brown Eyes
Recorded by Billy Walker
Written by Sonny Flaharty and Kent Westberry
[3/4 time]
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In Romaris cantina I loved her the first time I saw her
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My heart danced away to the music of Spanish guitars
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Her kisses had me feeling like I had too much Tequila
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Then we made mucho amor there under the stars
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I didn’t know at the time our love was forbidden
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Her family just did not approve of a Gringo like me
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We’d meet at an old run down shack just south of the river
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And I’d hold her close and whisper to her tenderly
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Coffee brown e-y-es hair like a raven
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It’s her lucky seven for me every night when the moon turns to gold
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Coffee brown e-y-es soft as an angel
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It’s heaven I found in a small border town down in Old Mexico
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I rode my pony up to the shack late one evening
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I’d been on the run and it seemed like forever or more
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I felt a cold empty feeling well up inside me
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When all that I found was an unsigned note on the door
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Your coffee brown eyes passed away early this morning
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The last thing she said was tell him true love never dies
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She kept the secret of your love hidden inside her
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Till this morning a baby was born with coffee brown eyes
Repeat #3
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Coffee brown e-y-es
