The Smothers Brothers - Jenny Brown lyrics

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Spoken:<br />

Tommy:<br />

My brother, my brother and myself have banded together<br />

In an organization, an organization called the siblings.<br />

A small crawling animal, the point is, my brother and myself are starting... <br />

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Dick:<br />

What Tommy is trying to say is we are planning on trying to change our<br />

Type of music and change the direction in which we want to sing<br />

We want to sing more to the teenagers, teenage love songs, <br />

Passionate songs, because teenagers need to understand they are in<br />

A very difficult time of life<br />

And there's a lot of people who sing just for teenagers<br />

And they are very very successful<br />

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Tommy:<br />

The Beatles are they... <br />

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Dick:<br />

They are as successful as you can get<br />

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Tommy:<br />

And they have Beatle wigs<br />

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Dick:<br />

Right<br />

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Tommy:<br />

And if you and I ever get that popular we couldn't have Smothers' wigs<br />

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Dick:<br />

No we could<br />

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Tommy:<br />

Because of our hairline, so we are going to have plastic ears<br />

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Dick:<br />

Tommy why don't you tell them the song we would like to try and<br />

Launch this new career with.<br />

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Tommy:<br />

Our new career will be launched with a song, a teenage song, <br />

A teenage song capturing the extremes of the emotional spectrum of excitement.<br />

First, the song has the unhappiness and the tragedy, and the end of the world feeling<br />

Which a teenage love, or a young person's love when it goes wrong, it has it's<br />

Unhappiness which knows no bounds and knows no depths of sorrow and pain.<br />

On the other extreme, we have elation, happiness, the teenage love is never a middle<br />

Of the road thing, but the extremes, this song featuring my brother and myself will<br />

Feature his lyric voice, the compassion he has gained... <br />

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Dick:<br />

Through bitter experience<br />

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Tommy:<br />

Through bitter experience, my brother will sing now the tragic yet beautiful story of<br />

The lovely teen angel.<br />

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Dick:<br />

No, that's not the name of the song<br />

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Tommy:<br />

The lovely teen angel, Jenny Brown. Passionate form, vivacious eyes sparkling alive.<br />

... Screwed up... <br />

Nobody's perfect.<br />

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Singing:<br />

As I was walking by the shore, <br />

I happened there to see, <br />

A woman's form a-lyin' there, <br />

As still as still could be.<br />

The dress she wore was gingham blue, <br />

Her hair all tumbled down; <br />

It might have been my own true love, <br />

My sweetheart Jenny Brown.<br />

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Her face was turned into the sand<br />

Was who, I couldn't tell<br />

But on her hand was a high school ring<br />

A ring I knew too well<br />

My heart stood still, I grasped her arm<br />

And then I turned her round<br />

Alas it was my own true love<br />

My sweetheart Jenny Brown<br />

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Spoken:<br />

Oh Jenny... Brown<br />

Why did I treat you cru-el<br />

Gosh wizz Jenny, there was tears in your eyes<br />

And you ran away from me and now here I find you<br />

On the beach all still and sandy<br />

And flies and stuff<br />

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Singing:<br />

I stared into her loving face<br />

A face that used to clown<br />

I saw one eye a-flicker<br />

Then wink and open round<br />

Ha ha she laughed, then jumped up tall<br />

"I'll bet you thought I'd drowned."<br />

What a rotten sense of humor, <br />

Has my sweetheart Jenny Brown.