All my I knew Tommy Brown We grew up in the same hometown I never thought was such a bad guy But folks would always when he walked by
Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown meanest boy in all the Everybody he'd turned out bad They he had stole and I guess he had But nobody offered him a helping They just went and said over
Oh Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town I loved a girl named Betty Lou thing was Tom loved her too She was kind to him and seemed to That if somebody loved him he be a man
The three of us the best of friends And stuck through thick and thin But we all knew that the would come She'd to choose between me and Tom
Oh Tom, Tom, Brown meanest boy in all the town Then came Pearl and the war was on I the call and so did Tom When we laughed at we would plainly see She had made her and the guy was me
We landed in Hadley the was hard Many dying and the rest were tired Every man gave his very best But who was the one that I'd to rest
Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town We both in a fox hole the bullets were flying When an enemy soldier slipped up He aimed at me but Tom acted He jumped between and I the blast
I got the too late I could see Tom stopped the bullet that was meant for me His body crumpled the smoke away And it to me he had a smile on his face
So Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town We him there and left across the sea Where I wrote these words he for me And nobody knew but the one of us he to save the boy she loved Tom, Tom, Tommy bravest boy in all the town Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown bravest boy in all the