'Objects In Space'
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.
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.
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.
I just searched RT's website and neither of those songs mention green eyes.
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.
I think there's a song on Rumor & Sigh or Mirror Blue that does mention green eyes, though. Beeswing, maybe?
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
That ain't no love song.
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.
Excellent. Thanks!
Thanks, Joe!