Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (chromatic)

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Tab

BAD, BAD LEROY BROWN
By: Jim Croce
Key: G

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Well the South side of Chi-ca-go 
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is the bad-dest part of town 
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And if you go down there,
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you bet-ter just be-ware 
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Of a man name of Le-roy Brown 
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Now Le-roy more than trou-ble 
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You see he stand 'bout six foot four 
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All the down-town la-dies 
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call him "Tree-top Lov-er" 
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All the men just call him "Sir" 

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And he's bad, bad Le-roy Brown 
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The bad-dest man in the whole damn town 
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Bad-der than old King Kong,
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and mean-er than a junk-yard dog 

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Now Le-roy he a gam-bler,
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and he like his fan-cy clothes 
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And he like to wave his dia-mond rings 
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In front of ev-‘ry-bod-y's nose 
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He got a cus-tom Con-ti-nen-tal,
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he got a El- do-ra-do too 
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He got a thir-ty two gun 
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in his pock-et for fun 
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He got a ra-zor in his shoe 

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And he's bad, bad Le-roy Brown 
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The bad-dest man in the whole damn town 
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Bad-der than old King Kong,
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and mean-er than a junk-yard dog 

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Well Fri-day bout a week a-go,
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Le-roy shoot-in' dice 
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And at the edge of the bar 
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sat a girl name of Dor-is 
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And oh, that girl looked nice 
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Well he cast his eyes up-on her 
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and the trou-ble soon be-gan 
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and Le-roy Brown he learned a les-son
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'bout mess-in' with the wife 
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of a jeal-ous man 

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And he's bad, bad Le-roy Brown 
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The bad-dest man in the whole damn town 
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Bad-der than old King Kong,
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and mean-er than a junk-yard dog 

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Well the two men took to fight-in' 
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And when they pulled them from the floor 
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Le-roy looked like a jig-saw puz-zle 
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With a cou-ple of piec-es gone 

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And he's bad, bad Le-roy Brown 
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The bad-dest man in the whole damn town 
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Yes, you were
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Bad-der than old King Kong,
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and mean-er than a junk-yard dog

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