Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy

Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy - Lester Flatt/Earl Scruggs

I sell the morning papers sir

My name is Jimmy Brown

Everybody knows

That I'm the newsboy of the town

You can hear me yelling

Morning Star running along the street

Got no hat upon my head

No shoes upon my feet

Never mind sir how I look

Don't look at me and frown

Sell the morning papers sir

My name is Jimmy Brown

I'm awful cold and hungry sir

My clothes is mighty thin

I wander about from place to place

My daily bread to win

My father died a drunkard sir

I've heard my mother say

I am helping mother sir

As I journey on my way

My mother always tells me sir

Nothing in the world to lose

I'll get a place in heaven sir

To sell the gospel news

I sell the morning papers sir

My name is Jimmy Brown

Everybody knows

That I'm the newsboy of the town

You can hear me yelling

Morning Star running along the street

Got no hat upon my head

No shoes upon my feet