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Big Bad Leroy Brown

by Jim Croce · posted by PoppaSus

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How to read this tab — notation key
+
Blow note
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab
3    5    -4 -4   4 4 -3b -3b  3   5  5   -4  -4  4
Well South side of Chicago is the baddest part of town

 3  -3b  3  5    5    5   -4  -4 -4   -4   4  
And if you go down there,you better just beware

-3b 3  5   5    -4 -4  	 4
Of a man named Leroy Brown

 3   -4  -4  -4   4  4   -3b 
Now Leroy more than trouble

 3  -3b  3    5     5   -4  -4    4   
You see he stand 'bout six foot four

-3b   3   5   5    5  5   -4  -4   -4  -4  -4  4
All the downtown ladies call him "Treetop Lover"

3   3   5    5    -4  -4    4
All the mens just call him "Sir"

refrain:

 3  -3b    4    4   5 -4   4
And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown

-4  -4  -4  -4  -4 -4    5     -4  4
The baddest man in the whole d*** town

 5  5    5   5    5  -4 4 -3b   5  5    5  5  -4  -4   4   
Badder than old King Kong,and meaner than a junkyard dog

-3b   5 -4 -4 4  4  -3b   3  -3b  5    5   -4 -4    4
Now Leroy he a gambler,and he like his fancy clothes

-3b  3   5   5    5   5   -4 -4    4
And he like to wave his diamond rings

3   -3b   3   5 5 -4-4     4
In front of everybody's nose

3  -3b  3  5 -4  -4  4  4 -3b 3  -3b  3  5  5 5 5 -4
He got a custom Continental,he got an Eldorado too

3  -3b  3   5 5   5   5  -4  4  -4 -4  -4  4
He got a thirty two gun in his pocket for fun

3  -3b  3  5 5  -4  -4    4
He got a razor in his shoe

refrain:
verse 2.

Well Friday bout a week ago,Leroy shootin' 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 messin'
with the wife of a jealous man

refrain:
verse 3.

Well the two men took to fightin'
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone

refrain:

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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