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Brown-Eyed Handsome ManJerry Lee Lewis

Songwriter: Chuck Berry

Producer: Jerry Kennedy

Flying across the desert in a TWA
Saw me a woman walking across the sand
Walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay
To meet a brown eyed handsome man
Brown eyed handsome man

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
Brown eyed handsome man

Way back in history three thousand years
Back ever since the world began
There's been a whole lot of a shaking going on
Over a brown eyed handsome man
Brown eyed handsome man

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

Well, two, three the count with nobody on
He hit a high fly into the stand
He was rounding the third, he's headed for home
It was the brown eyed handsome man
Brown eyed handsome man, yeah

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis was a leading figure in the popularization of rock & roll during the 1950s. He was first signed to Sun Records in 1956 where he was labelmates with Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, and other early rock artists. Of those musicians, however, he was the only piano player and combined with his heavy-handed playing style, sexually suggestive lyrics, and provocative stage antics he came to epitomize the rebelliousness of the genre.

He rose to international fame for his 1957 versions of the songs “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On.”

Lewis' popularity rapidly tumbled, however, when in 1958, when at the age of 22, he married his 13-year-old cousin. Though this scandal continued to tarnish his image, Lewis never retired from music. As of October 2015, he continues to perform live.

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