Jimmy Brown

Lyrics

[Male Speaking Voice]: Hello, Bill. It was awfully nice to get your tape, and we're trying to reciprocate. Couple 'a tapeworms, so to speak. Well, here we are, sitting around the dinner table, but only Joanie, and Joan, and myself. Mimi's at camp, and Pauline is... elsewhere, we'll tell you more about her later. We have quite a bit of interesting news, for you, but before we do that, I think I'll let you listen to Joanie. Here's Joanie [Joan]: I sell the morning papers sir My name is Jimmy Brown Everybody knows that I'm a newsboy of the town You will hear me yelling morning star As I run along the street I have no hat upon my head No shoes upon my feet Never mind sir how I look Don't look at me and frown I sell the morning papers sir My name is Jimmy Brown I'm awful cold and hungry sir My clothes are torn and thin I wander 'bout from place to place My daily bread to win My father died a drunkard sir I've heard my mother say I'm helping mother sir As I journey on my way My mother always tells me sir There's nothing in the world to lose I'll get a place in heaven sir To sell the gospel news