Blue eyes vs brown eyes in music

Cafe Society
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I have a sneaking suspicion that blue eyes are sung about more often, leaving us poor brown-eyed people feeling like we’re all second-class, but I can’t really come up with a list comprehensive enough to make a reasonable sample size. I call on my music-loving Dopers for help!

Rules: the mention of eyes can be in the title or in the lyrics of a song. If you’re referencing a lyric, please give the song title and artist name.

Blue eyes:

Behind Blue Eyes (The Who)
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Sinatra) - “Don’t you know blue-eyes you never can win”
Sweet Child O’ Mine (Guns N Roses) - “She’s got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rain”

Brown Eyes:
Brown-eyed girl (Van Morrison)
Deuces are Wild (Aerosmith) - “I love to look into your big brown eyes”

Neutral:
Sweetest thing (U2) - “Blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl”

I know, my list is sadly short. I know there are more that I can’t remember right now…

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Blue eyes being a bad thing:

Don’t it make my brown eyes blue - Crystal Gayle.
Heal the pain - George Michael:

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I can’t help with the songs, but as a blue-eyed freak, I hope (and think) my side will be triumphant.

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Blue Eyes - Cary Brothers

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Oh, and Wanna B Ur Luvr - Weird Al (You’re absolutely perfect, don’t speak now, you might spoil it/Your eyes are even bluer than the water in my toilet)

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A Pair Of Brown Eyes – The Pogues

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You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – Bachman Turner Overdrive

And then she looked at me with big brown eyes and said
You ain’t seen nothing yet…

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July For Kings - Blue Eyes “what makes your eyes so blue?”

Tonic - If You Could Only See “If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she say/ When she says she loves me”

The Vacancy - Blue Eyes “I try so hard to forget every little thing about you/but those blue eyes they still watch [or haunt] me at night”

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Misty Morning, Albert Bridge – The Pogues

Your eyes, blue as the ocean between us
Smiling at me

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Blue Eyes
Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground
Suite Judy Blue Eyes - CSN
Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain - Willie Nelson

Brown Eyes
Big Brown Eyes - Old 97’s

…and the dark horse: Green Eyes, by Husker Du

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Actually, the real dark horse would probably be “Black Eyes” by Shut Up And Get Me Another Beer.

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Queen
Fat Bottomed Girls
…I’ve seen every blue-eyed floozy on the way

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I’ve got an MP3 of a song called “Brown Eyed Girl”, I dunno who wrote it, or if it was originally a ska song or not.

Also, there’s a Kelly Clarkson song called “Behind These Hazel Eyes”, which adds weight to the blue side of the force.

Once we figure this out, we need to figure out which color is better… green… or purple? :smiley:

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Big Brown Eyes- The Db’s

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Eric Clapton - Blue eyes Blue* (It was you, who made my blue eyes blue)

*that might be wrong…it’s something like that…not sure though

Brendon

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“Somebody’s knockin” by Terri Gibbs:

…
Lord it’s the devil
Would you look at him
I’ve heard about him
But I never dreamed
He’d have blue eyes and blue jeans

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Blue eyes
Lightning Crashes- Live

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Ebony Eyes by Bob Welch

Awesome 70s song.

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**Bron-Yr-Aur-Stomp ** by Led Zeppelin.

…“ain’t no companion like a blue-eyed girl”

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Jim Reeves
Billy Bayou
…Billy was a boy, kinda big for his size,
Red hair, freckles and big blue eyes.