My eyes are brown. Before my eyelids began drooping my eyes were big and beautiful. Now, they’re just plain—hardly noticeable behind my glasses.
Someone once told me my eyes were my best feature. I took that as a compliment until I realized that the eyes are pretty much EVERYONE’s best facial feature. I mean, a mouth could be, I guess, but the eyes provide color and sparkle and personality. Without the eyes, what do you have left? Not much to talk about, that’s what.
Again, my eyes are brown, and I’ve always felt like brown eyes get ignored in songs. As I’ve listened to hour upon hour of country music over the past three months doing research for my little romance novel, I’ve been bombarded by tales of men hankering for blue eyed girls and green eyed girls, but not a single mention of a brown eyed girl in popular country music as far as I can tell.
But, what about music as a whole? Are there brown eyed girls in those songs? We all know Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl”. It is, for obvious reasons, one of my favorites.
Interestingly enough, though, the original title of Morrison’s song was “Brown Skinned Girl!” Damn.
A song from my childhood, “Birds and the Bees” specifically mentions big brown eyes. I always imagined it had been written just for me. Of course at the time I thought we were talking literally about birds and bees.
A google search of songs about brown eyes turned up a few more. Actually, quite a few more. There are a couple of redundancies, but brown eyes do get some attention. And Crystal Gale’s “Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes Blue” is arguably a country song.
I’ll not rest, though, until brown eyes take their place alongside the blues and greens of this world. It’s my new mission in life.
Peace, people!
Praying for Eyebrowz 
Well, I prefer brown eyes 🙂
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All the intelligent men do.
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🙂
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Brown eyes❤
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Try being hazel….
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That’s what my daughter says.
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😉
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My eyes are hazel, too. What did we get? Remember that TV show about the maid who got into everyone’s business–“Hazel.” So not like having a song named after you….
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Exactly
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So I should shut up? 😘
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🙂 You got Van. **sighs heavily**
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Sigh!
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I’m right there with you. Interestingly enough, my eye color is the same as the color in the photo your posted. That almost amber/whisky brown. Or at least it used to be. No clue what has changed over the years or why, but they are now this odd almost muddy green. I actually got into an argument with my daughter about it a while back and that is what prompted the realization that they’d changed. She said they weren’t that color and when I really looked in the mirror she was right. I do have older photos to prove I did in fact have that color, but the whole thing kind of threw me. I didn’t know that eye color could change. Or at least not that significantly. I’d prefer to go back to my original brown, thank you very much!
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Mine haven’t changed in color but they sure aren’t as sparkly as they once were.
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Wow… you got a lot of brown eyed songs. Now look at that, I have brown eyes too. We do share a lot of songs here…
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I’m afraid to listen to some of them….
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Lol xxx
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My eyes are hazel and there’s no songs about hazel-eyed girls. 😂
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I’m so sorry. Maybe we should write one—you’re not the first to remind me of this.
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Hey, that’s a great idea! It could be a rap…I hate rap….Sometimes my eyes be brown, Sometimes my eyes be green….Mixed dem colors to get a creamy hazel….nutty! LOL! 🙂
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I write a blog post just for you this morning.
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Thank you Leslie for that! Well, at least we gave you another topic to write about! LOL! 🙂
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I appreciated that, too!
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🙂
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