Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown
[Intro]
G --- G - D7 - ...
[Verse]
G --- Well the South side of Chicago
Am --- is the baddest part of town
B7 - C - And if you go down there you better just beware
D C G D7 Of a man named Leroy Brown
[Verse]
G --- Now Leroy more than trouble
Am --- you see he stand about six foot four
B7 - C - All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover
D C G D7 All the men just call him sir
[Chorus]
G --- And he bad, bad Leroy Brown
Am --- The baddest man in the whole damned town
B7 - C - Badder than old King Kong
D C G D7 And meaner than a junkyard dog
[Verse]
G --- Now Leroy, he a gambler
Am --- and he like his fancy clothes
B7 - C - And he like to wave his diamond rings
D C G D7 in front of everybody's nose
[Verse]
G --- He got a custom Continental,
Am --- he got an Eldorado too
B7 - C - He got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun,
D C G D7 he got a razor in his shoe
[Chorus]
G --- And he bad, bad Leroy Brown
Am --- The baddest man in the whole damned town
B7 - C - Badder than old King Kong
D C G D7 And meaner than a junkyard dog
[Verse]
G --- Now Friday 'bout a week ago
Am --- Leroy shootin' dice
B7 - C - And at the edge of the bar sat a girl name Doris
D C G D7 and oo, that girl looked nice
[Verse]
G --- Well he cast his eyes upon her
Am --- and the trouble soon began
B7 - C - Leroy Brown learned a lesson 'bout messin'
D C G D7 With the wife of a jealous man
[Chorus]
G --- And he bad, bad Leroy Brown
Am --- The baddest man in the whole damned town
B7 - C - Badder than old King Kong
D C G D7 And meaner than a junkyard dog
[Verse]
G --- Well the two men took to fighting
Am --- And when they pulled them from the floor
B7 - C - Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
D C G D7 With a couple of pieces gone.
[Chorus]
G --- And he bad, bad Leroy Brown
Am --- The baddest man in the whole damned town
B7 - C - Badder than old King Kong
D C G D7 And meaner than a junkyard dog
[Last Chorus]
G --- And he bad, bad Leroy Brown
Am --- The baddest man in the whole damned town
B7 - C - Badder than old King Kong
D C G - And meaner than a junkyard dog
B7 - C - Yeah, he was badder than old King Kong
D C G G ... And meaner than a junkyard dog