All my life I knew Brown We grew up together in the 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 said he'd turned out bad They he had stole and I guess he had But offered him a helping hand They just went and said over
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 seemed to 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 knew that the time would 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 fighting was Many were dying and the rest tired Every man there gave his very But who was the one that I'd fought to
Tom, Tom, Brown bravest 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 between and I heard the blast
I got the soldier too late I see 'Cause Tom stopped the bullet was meant for me His crumpled the smoke cleared away And it seemed to me he had a smile on his
So Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown bravest boy in all the 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 to save the boy she loved Tom, Tom, Brown bravest boy in all the town Tom, Tom, Tommy Brown bravest boy in all the