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Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown

by Jim Croce · posted by djlactose

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

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab
6    8    -8 -8   7 7-6-6  6   8  8   -8  -8  7
Well South side of Chicago is the baddest part of town

 6  -6  6  8    8    8   -8  -8 -8   -8   7 -6
And if you go down there,you better just beware

-6 6  8   8    -8 -8   7
Of a man named Leroy Brown

 6   8 -8  -8    7    7 -6
Now Leroy more than trouble

 6  -6  6    8     8   -8  -8    7  
You see he stand 'bout six foot four

-6   6   8   8    8  8   -8  -8   -8  -8  -8 7
All the downtown ladies call him "Treetop Lover"

-6   6   8    8    -8  -8    7
All the mens just call him "Sir"

refrain:

 6  -6    7    7   8 -8   7
And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown

-8  -8  -8  -8  -8 -8    8     8  -8 7
The baddest man in the whole d*** town

 8  8    8   8    8  -8 7 -6   8  8    8  8  -8  -8   7   
Badder than old King Kong,and meaner than a junkyard dog

-6   8 -8 -8 7  7  -6   6  -6  8    8   -8-8    7
Now Leroy he a gambler,and he like his fancy clothes

-6  6   8   8    8   8   -8 -8    7
And he like to wave his diamond rings

6   -6   6   8 8 -8-8     7
In front of everybody's nose

6  -6  6  8 -8  -8  7  7 -6 6  -6  6  8  8 8 8 -8
He got a custom Continental,he got an Eldorado too

6  -6  6   8 8   8   8  -8  7  -8 -8  -8  -8
He got a thirty two gun in his pocket for fun

6  -6  6  8 8  -8 -8    7
He got a razor in his shoe

refrain:

verse 2.
 6    8  -8  -8  7   7  7-6  8 -8  -8  7    -6   
Well Friday bout a week ago,Leroy shootin' dice

 6  -6  6   8   8   8   8  -8  7  -8   -8   -8 7
And at the edge of the bar sat a girl named Doris

-6   8    8   -8   -8     7
And ooh that girl looked nice

 -6  6   8    8  -8   -8-8  7  -6   6   -8 -8   -8  7 -6
Well he cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began

-6   8 8    8     8    -8  -8 -8  -8   -8 7
and Leroy Brown learned a lesson'bout messin'
 
 -6   6   8   8  8  -8  -8  7
with the wife of a jealous man

refrain:

verse 3.
 -6   6   8   8   -8  -8  -8  7
Well the two men took to fightin'

-6   -6    6    8      8   -8  -8    7  
And when they pulled them from the floor

 8 8    8     -8 -8 -8 -8  -8  7
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle

 -6  6  8  8  8  -8 -8   7
With a couple of pieces gone

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

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