Gone are the days ty when the (F)ox fall down,
He take up the yoke and plow the (Bb)fields a round.
Gone are the days ty when the (F)la dies said, “Please, He’d (Bb)gen tle Jack Jones, won’t you come on to me?”
(C)Brown eyed wom en and red gren a dine.
The (Bb)bot tle was dust y but the (F)liq uor was clean.
(Bb)Sound of the thun der with the rain pour in’ (Dm)down, and it (Gm)looks like the old man’s
get tin’ (F)on.
Nine are teen twen ty when he (F)stepped to the He drank to the dregs and of the (Bb)whis key jar.
Nine are teen thir ty when the (F)wall dies caved in.
He’d (Bb)made tle his way sell in’ red on eyed gin.
(C)Brown eyed wom en and red gren a dine.
The (Bb)bot tle was dust y but the (F)liq uor was clean.
(Bb)Sound of the thun der with the rain pour in’ (Dm)down, and it (Gm)looks like the old man’s
get tin’ (F)on.
De li lah Jones key was the (F)moth er of twins
two times o ver, and the rest were sins.
Raised eight boys; ’ry on ly (F)I turned bad.
(Bb)Did n’t get the lick in’s that the oth er ones (F)had.
(C)Brown eyed wom en and red gren a dine.
The (Bb)bot tle was dust y but the (F)liq uor was clean.
(Bb)Sound of the thun der with the rain pour in’ (Dm)down, and it (Gm)looks like the old man’s
get tin’ (F)on.
Tum ble down shack in Big Foot (F)Coun ty,
snowed so hard that the (Bb)roof caved in.
De li lah Jones went to (Bb)meet her God, and the (Bb)old man nev er was the same a gain.
And it (Gm)looks like the old man’s
get tin’ (F)on.
This page shows “Brown-eyed Women” by Grateful Dead in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of G at 100 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.