Bad Bad Leroy Brown            Jim Croce

[Piano]
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Verse:1 
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Well the South side of Chicago, 
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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   

Verse:2  
    G 
Now Leroy more than trouble,  
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You see he stand a-bout six foot four,  
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All the  downtown ladies  call him  Treetop Lover,  
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All the  men just  call him Sir.  

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Chorus:  
         G 
And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown,  
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The baddest man in the whole damn town,  
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Badder than old King Kong,  
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And meaner than a  junkyard dog.  
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Verse:3  
    G                          A7 
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  32 gun in his pocket for fun,  
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He got a razor in his shoe.  

- REPEAT CHORUS -  

Verse:4  
     G                       A7 
Well Friday bout a week ago, Leroy shootin' dice,  
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And at the edge of the bar, Sat a girl named Doris,  
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And ooh that girl looked nice.  

Verse:5  
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Well he cast his eyes upon her, And the trouble soon began,  
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And Leroy Brown learned a lesson 'Bout messin',  
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with the wife of a jealous man.  

- REPEAT CHORUS -  

Verse:6  
         G 
Well the two men, they took to fightin',  
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And when they pulled them from the floor,  
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Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle,  
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With a couple of pieces gone.  

- REPEAT CHORUS X 2 & End -  

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