A Pair of Brown Eyes

"A Pair of Brown Eyes" is a single by The Pogues, released on 18 March 1985.^[1] The single was their first to make the UK Top 100, peaking at Number 72.^[2] It featured on the band's second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash, and was composed by Pogues front man Shane MacGowan, on the melody of "Wild Mountain Thyme", also known as "Will Ye Go Lassie Go," a song by Francis McPeake in a traditional Irish folk style.

The song references the Johnny Cash version of the song 'A Thing Called Love': "And on the jukebox Johnny sang / About a thing called love".

Music video

The music video for "A Pair of Brown Eyes" was directed in 1985 by Alex Cox and was set in a Nineteen Eighty-Four-esque Britain with Margaret Thatcher in the place of Big Brother as a supreme, god-like authoritarian figure. The video featured roles played by band members as well as a cameo by the record's producer Elvis Costello.

References

↑ "Record News". Melody Maker (London, England: IPC Media): 4. 16 March 1985.
↑ Pogues UK chart history

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

The Pogues

Spider Stacy Jem Finer James Fearnley Shane MacGowan Andrew Ranken Darryl Hunt Terry Woods Cait O'Riordan Philip Chevron Joe Strummer Dave Coulter James McNally Jamie Clarke

Studio albums	Red Roses for Me Rum Sodomy & the Lash If I Should Fall from Grace with God Peace and Love Hell's Ditch Waiting for Herb Pogue Mahone

EPs	Poguetry in Motion Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Compilations	The Best of The Pogues The Rest of the Best The Very Best of the Pogues Dirty Old Town: The Platinum Collection Just Look Them Straight In The Eye and Say....POGUE MAHONE!!

Singles	"Dark Streets of London" "Boys from the County Hell" "A Pair of Brown Eyes" "Sally MacLennane" "Dirty Old Town" "Haunted" "The Irish Rover" "Fairytale of New York" "If I Should Fall from Grace with God" "Fiesta" "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge" "Summer in Siam" "Jack's Heroes" "Sunny Side of the Street" "A Rainy Night in Soho" "Honky Tonk Women" "Tuesday Morning" "Once Upon a Time"

Other songs	"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" "The Auld Triangle" "Greenland Whale Fisheries" "I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day" "Jesse James" "Maggie May" "Mountain Dew" "The Parting Glass" "Poor Paddy" "South Australia" "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" "Thousands Are Sailing" "Waxie's Dargle" "When the Ship Comes In" "Worms"

Related articles	Discography Songs

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