All my life I knew Tommy We up together in the same hometown I never Tommy was such a bad guy But folks would always whispered he walked by
Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town Everybody he'd turned out bad They said he had stole and I he had But offered him a helping hand They just went and over again
Oh Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown meanest boy in all the I loved a girl Betty Lou strange thing was Tom loved her too She was kind to him and to understand That if somebody him he could be a man
The three of us were the best of And stuck together through thick and But we all knew that the time 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 answered the and so did Tom When we at Betty we would plainly see She had made her and the guy was me
We landed in Hadley the was hard Many were and the rest were tired Every man there gave his very But who was the one that I'd fought to
Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown boy in all the town We were both in a fox the bullets were flying When an soldier slipped up behind He at me but Tom acted fast He between and I heard the blast
I got the too late I could see 'Cause Tom stopped the bullet that was for me His crumpled the smoke cleared away And it to me he had a smile on his face
So Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown bravest boy in all the We him there and left across the sea Where I wrote these he died for me And nobody but the one of us he died to save the boy she loved Tom, Tom, Tommy bravest boy in all the town Tom, Tom, Brown bravest boy in all the town