All my life I knew Tommy We grew up together in the hometown I thought Tommy was such a bad guy But folks always whispered when he walked by
Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown meanest boy in all the said he'd turned out bad They said he had stole and I he had But nobody offered him a helping just went and said over again
Oh Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown meanest boy in all the I loved a girl named Lou strange thing was Tom loved her too She was kind to him and to understand That if loved him he could be a man
The three of us the best of friends And stuck together through thick and But we all knew that the would come She'd to choose between me and Tom
Oh Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town Then came Harbor and the war was on I the call and so did Tom When we laughed at Betty we plainly see She had made her and the guy was me
We landed in Hadley the was hard Many were dying and the rest tired man there gave his very best But who was the one that I'd to rest
Tom, Tom, Brown bravest boy in all the town We were in a fox hole the bullets were flying When an enemy soldier up behind He at me but Tom acted fast He jumped between and I heard the
I got the soldier too I could see 'Cause Tom stopped the that was meant for me His body crumpled the smoke away And it seemed to me he had a on his face
So Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town We buried him there and left the sea Where I wrote words he died 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, Brown bravest boy in all the town