Rhythm/strumming pattern - Brown eyed girl

I need a "Oh, you play guitar, play me a song" song and decided that Brown
Eyed Girl would fit the bill for now. It's got easy chords and I can play along with it at normal speed and girls dig it...

But, I can make the chord changes on time and it sounds fine when I play along with the actual song, but when I play it solo it kinda sounds like
Knocking on Heavans Door... Well, maybe not exactly like that but I can't get a clear feel for how the strumming pattern should go. Can someone map it out for me?

I was a dj for 10 years...I HATE THAT SONG.

There's a bunch of songs like that for me. I've played them thousands of time and if I never hear them again it will be too soon.

Brown eyed girl is one of them. lol

The singer in my band wants to do Brown Eyed Girl.
I hate that song.
I must have heard it and played it a thousand times.
I am going to try to talk him out of it.

Thanks Mike

I agree with you except it's kinda slow and mellow and I want something with a little kick to it. I can play Hey Hey My My by Neil Young pretty well but again, it's not a real high charged spunky kinda song. It's pretty recognizable though, and that's another important element.

I have always played it like this ( per measure ): down, down/up, up, down/up

You'll have to view this in an equal-spaced font like Courier for it to make sense, but try this...

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & x x x x

or, put another way...
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
D U U D (down, up, up, down)

or.....
(ONE and two AND three AND FOUR and)

It mirrors the signature riff between verses. Not necessarily what they're doing on the record, but it works well for solo performance.

I used the tab from this site: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/m/morrison_van/ brown_eyed_girl_tab.htm

It's pretty much G-C-G-D and C-D-G

Good luck!

sounds good to me want to have it on my bill too!
What chords do you use?