Jim Croce, Bad Bad Leroy Brown (1973)
Key: :[G] (w: Jim Croce)
INTRO: [G5]^
[G6] [D5]
VERSE 1:
Well the
[G5] south side of Chicago, is the
[A5] baddest part of town,
And if you
[B5] go down there, you better
[C5] just beware,
Of a
[D5] man named
[C5] Leroy
[G5] Brown
[D7]
Now Leroy more than trouble, you see he stands about six foot four,
All the downtown ladies call him Treetop Lover; All the men just call him sir
CHORUS:
And it's
[G5] bad, bad Leroy Brown,
The
[A5] baddest man in the whole damn town,
[B5] Badder than old King
[C5] Kong,
And
[D5] meaner than a
[C5] junkyard
[G5] dog
[D7]
VERSE 2:
Now Leroy he a gambler, and he like his fancy clothes,
And he likes to wave his diamond rings, In front of everybody's nose
He got a custom Continental; he got an Eldorado too,
He got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun, He got a razor in his shoe
REPEAT CHORUS:
VERSE 3:
Well Friday bout a week ago, Leroy shooting dice,
And at the edge of the bar, Sat a girl named Doris, And ooh that girl looked nice
Well he cast his eyes upon her, and the trouble soon began,
And Leroy Brown learned a lesson 'bout messing, with the wife of a jealous man
REPEAT CHORUS:
Well the two men, they took to fighting,
And when they pulled them from the floor,
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle, with a couple of pieces gone.
REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]
OUTRO:
[B7] Badder than old King
[C] Kong,
And
[D7] meaner than a
[C] junkyard
[G] dog
[D7] [G]