All my life I knew Tommy We grew up together in the same I never Tommy was such a bad guy But folks would whispered when he walked by
Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown meanest boy in all the Everybody said he'd out bad They said he had stole and I he had But nobody offered him a hand just went and said over again
Oh Tom, Tom, Tommy meanest boy in all the town I loved a named Betty Lou strange thing was Tom loved her too She was kind to him and to understand if somebody loved him he could be a man
The of us were the best of friends And together through thick and thin But we all knew the time would come have to choose between me and Tom
Oh Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town Then came Pearl and the war was on I the call and so did Tom we laughed at Betty we would plainly see She had made her and the guy was me
We landed in Hadley the was hard were dying and the rest were tired Every man there his very best But who was the one I'd fought to rest
Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town We were both in a fox hole the bullets were When an soldier slipped up behind He aimed at me but Tom acted He jumped and I heard the blast
I got the soldier too late I see 'Cause Tom stopped the bullet was meant for me His body crumpled the smoke away And it seemed to me he had a smile on his
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, Tommy Brown bravest boy in all the Tom, Tom, Tommy bravest boy in all the town