All my life I knew Brown We up together in the same hometown I never thought was such a bad guy But folks would always when he walked by
Tom, Tom, Brown meanest boy in all the town said he'd turned out bad They said he had stole and I he had But nobody him a helping hand They went and said over again
Oh Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town I loved a named Betty Lou strange thing was Tom loved her too She was kind to him and seemed to if somebody loved him he could be a man
The of us were 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, Tommy Brown boy in all the town came Pearl Harbor and the war was on I answered the and so did Tom When we at Betty we would plainly see She had her choice and the guy was me
We landed in Hadley the fighting was were dying and the rest were tired Every man there gave his best But who was the one that I'd fought to
Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town We were in a fox hole the bullets were flying When an enemy soldier slipped up He aimed at me but Tom acted He between and I heard the blast
I got the too late I could see Tom stopped the bullet that was meant for me His body crumpled the smoke cleared And it seemed to me he had a smile on his
So Tom, Tom, Tommy bravest boy in all the town We buried him and left across the sea I wrote these words he died for me And nobody knew but the one of us he died to save the boy she Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown bravest boy in all the Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown bravest boy in all the