Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

Album: Classic Crystal (1977)
Charted: 5 2
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  • Don't know when I've been so blue
    Don't know what's come over you
    You've found someone new and
    Don't it make my brown eyes blue

    I'll be fine when you're gone
    I'll just cry all night long
    Say it isn't true and
    Don't it make my brown eyes blue

    Tell me no secrets, tell me some lies
    Give me no reasons, give me alibies
    Tell me you love me and don't let me cry
    Say anything but don't say goodbye

    I didn't mean to treat you bad
    Didn't know just what I had
    But honey now I do
    And don't it make my brown eyes
    Don't it make my brown eyes
    Don't it make my brown eyes blue Writer/s: Richard C Leigh
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

  • Mark from CaliforniaThe three weeks that "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" was at #2 on the Hot 100 (having reached that position on 26 November 1977), Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" was at #1.
  • George from Vancouver, CanadaI absolutely adore her voice; I remember this song from my childhood, then finally seeing her with her ankle-length hair & thinking "Wow!"; I only heard "Doughnuts make your brown eyes blue" last week or so, from a mate in Florida. Cute.
  • Dean from Birmingham, AlWhat Jennifer and Guy said!
  • Jennifur Sun from RamonaGuy that beautiful piano part was by Pig Robbins; it is what made the song for me as well as the reason I stopped to listen to it the first time.
  • Guy from Woodinville, WaLove that piano riff. What a perfect, simple song.
  • Alex from Cambridge, United KingdomI would give it five star rating
  • Alex from Cambridge, United KingdomIt is a great song and i am learning it for a competion
  • Wes from Springfield, VaMy friends and I used to call this one, "Doughnuts Make My Brown Eyes Blue."
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