"Beautiful Brown Eyes" is a country song written by Alton Delmore, originally inspired by his oldest daughter.
An award was presented to Alton Delmore for "Beautiful Brown Eyes" in 1951.
[1] The lyrics are sung from the perspective of a woman unlucky in love, divorced, and remarried, who will "never love blue eyes again".
The following credit Smith, Delmore and also Jerry Capehart (1928-1998) who would have only been 23 when the original Smith-Delmore version was published.
Solomon Burke, the Brothers Four, Billy Walker, Connie Francis, Chet Atkins, and Roy Acuff.