Great, great song, albeit a real bummer.
OTOH, going back to what triggered all this talk about green eyes, it can't be a bad thing that Jolene would make the "brown-eyed girl" look quite plain by comparison.
Tell me more good stuff about me.
Kaylee ,'The Message'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Fred Pete - May 15, 2006 6:39:33 am PDT #3296 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Sue - May 15, 2006 6:46:41 am PDT #3297 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Red Molly (Richard Thompson "1952 Vincent Black Lightning") has green eyes to go along with her red hair and black leather color scheme.
I thought that too. Or maybe the green eyes were in the very similar song about Shane and Dixie from Mirror Blue.
DavidS - May 15, 2006 6:47:42 am PDT #3298 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I feel obliged to note for historical context that "brown-eyed girl" is sorta pop-music short-hand for "brown-skinned girl" - riffing back on Chuck Berry's "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man."
It was understood as such when the song came out and there was a bit of kerfuffle that it was talking about an interracial romance.
Sue - May 15, 2006 6:50:39 am PDT #3299 of 10003
hip deep in pie
I just searched RT's website and neither of those songs mention green eyes.
Fred Pete - May 15, 2006 6:57:08 am PDT #3300 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Interesting, Hec. I knew the context of the Chuck Berry song, but not the Van Morrison. (Which came out around the time I started kindergarten.)
But "Jolene" (in both the Parton version and the Olivia Newton-John version that's on her live album) is definitely supposed to be A Beauty.
Hayden - May 15, 2006 6:58:43 am PDT #3301 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I think there's a song on Rumor & Sigh or Mirror Blue that does mention green eyes, though. Beeswing, maybe?
Sue - May 15, 2006 10:32:34 am PDT #3302 of 10003
hip deep in pie
According to the RT Song-o-matic, Calvary Cross is the only song to mention green eyes, or eye:
I was under the Calvary Cross
The pale-faced lady she said to me
I’ve watched you with my one green eye
And I’ll hurt you ‘till you need me
You scuff your heels and you spit on your shoes
You do nothing with reason
One day you catch a train
Never leaves the station
Hayden - May 15, 2006 10:55:44 am PDT #3303 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
That ain't no love song.
joe boucher - May 16, 2006 9:47:44 am PDT #3304 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
What does the world need? More flaming tubas! The Phoenix Projekt and the Tubatron.
Corwood & Hec, I finally put those books in the mail. Been a madhouse here.
Hayden - May 16, 2006 10:58:40 am PDT #3305 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Excellent. Thanks!