From the film “Dixie”, 1943.
Words by Johnny Burke.
Music by Jimmy Van Heusen.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
It’s surprising how seldom, if ever, you meet
A person who’s always kind and sweet
Call it childish, no backbone, all fancy or whim
I know a person, you’d like him
Refrain:
Just a ragged old grin, a pocket of crumbs
A friend of the birds in town
And the people all call him
Kind-‘a Peculiar Brown
And whenever it rains, he carries a broom
For sweeping the dark clouds down
And the people all call him
Kind-‘a Peculiar Brown
And he’s always finding sunbeams
In his flower beds
And the people smile and shake their heads
But they’re going to miss that funny old man
Who never learned how to frown
And the people will cry, and never know why
For Kind-‘a Peculiar Brown