All my I knew Tommy Brown We grew up together in the 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 said he had stole and I he had But nobody him a helping hand They just went and said over
Oh Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town I loved a girl named Betty Lou strange was Tom loved her too She was to him and seemed to understand That if somebody him he could be a man
The three of us were the best of And stuck through thick and thin But we all that the time would come have to choose between me and Tom
Oh Tom, Tom, Tommy meanest boy in all the town came Pearl Harbor and the war was on I the call and so did Tom When we at Betty we would plainly see She had made her and the guy was me
We landed in the fighting was hard Many were dying and the rest tired Every man there his very best But who was the one I'd fought to rest
Tom, Tom, Brown bravest boy in all the town We both in a fox hole the bullets were flying When an enemy slipped up behind He aimed at me but Tom fast He jumped between and I heard the
I got the too late I could see 'Cause Tom stopped the that was meant for me His body crumpled the cleared 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 died to the boy she loved Tom, Tom, Brown bravest boy in all the town Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town