Ev'ryone considered him the coward of the county.
He'd never stood one single time to prove the county wrong.
His mama called him tommy, the folks just called him yellow,
But something always told me they were reading tommy wrong.>
He was only ten years old when his daddy died in prison.
I looked after tommy 'cause he was my brother's son. I still recall the final words my brother said to tommy:
"son, my life is over, but yours is just begun.