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Big Bad Leroy Brown

by Jim Croce

Type:
Diatonic
Key:
C
Level:
Beginner
Posted by:
PoppaSus
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Well South side of Chicago is the baddest part of town

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And if you go down there,you better just beware

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Of a man named Leroy Brown

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Now Leroy more than trouble

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You see he stand 'bout six foot four

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All the downtown ladies call him "Treetop Lover"

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All the mens just call him "Sir"

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And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown

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The baddest man in the whole d*** town

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Badder than old King Kong,and meaner than a junkyard dog

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Now Leroy he a gambler,and he like his fancy clothes

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And he like to wave his diamond rings

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In front of everybody's nose

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He got a custom Continental,he got an Eldorado too

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He got a thirty two gun in his pocket for fun

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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

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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

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