Chords for Jim Croce - Bad Bad, Leroy Brown | Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live

_ This is another one of those character songs.
_ I get out of a university in _ 1965
_ Totally prepared for life in the 12th century
_ Kind of looked around here looked around there, and then I got this brown letter in the mail one day
Signed by a general _ _ said come play with us, so I went down to a place called Fort Jackson in South Carolina
Where they took my extensive college? _
Experience and put me into the infantry _ as a lineman I climbed telephone poles _ was communications
_ _ Stringing that wire from one place to another and I met this guy down there who was in the company his name was Leroy Brown
And Leroy was one of those guys that didn't know the meaning of no
You tell Leroy to do one thing and Leroy would do another thing
He was just one of those kind of characters he come from Chicago been out in the street a long time and had to make
his own way
So he was about to keep on making it _
He was down there a couple weeks, and he looked at me one night.
We're sitting talking
He says you know Jim.
I don't like this place, and I'm gonna go home
So he got himself packed up and he went home without telling anybody except in the army.
They call that a wall
_ Absent without leave, but he did come back at the end of the month to get his paycheck
And that was it _
Snap put him in the handcuffs and took him away, but didn't bother him
He'd get out a little later [G] and still hung around.
He was always the kind of guy that would keep people laughing _ _ _
Unless he got in trouble with him, and this is tune wrote about him.
Just called bad bad Leroy Brown
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] Well South side of Chicago
[Ab] [A] It's a better part of town
[Bb] [B] And if you go down [C] there you better just beware [D] of a man named [G] Leroy Brown
Now Leroy was in trouble
[Ab] _ [A] Stand about six foot four
[B] Follow downtown [C] ladies got a treetop [D] over all the [G] men just call him [D] sir
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Meaner than a [G] junkyard dog
Now Leroy he a gambler, [Ab] [A] and he like his fancy clothes
[B] And he like to [Am] wave him diamond rings upon _ [G] everybody's nose
[D] _ [G] They got a custom _ _ continental
[A] He got an _ Eldorado, too
_ [Bb] [B] He got a 32 [C] gun in his pocket for fun.
[D] He got a [C] razor [G] in his shoe It's bad _ _ Leroy [A] Brown
The better man in the whole damn [Bb] [B] town
Better than old [C] King Kong
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[G] Meaner than a junkyard dog
Well it was Friday about a week [Ab] ago
[A] _
Leroy shooting dice
[B] And at the edge of the [C] bar sat a girl named [D] Doris and oh [G] that girl looked nice
Well he cast his eyes upon her [Ab] [A] and her trouble soon began
_ [Bb] _ [B] And Leroy Brown [C] learned to miss about a [G] messing with the wife of a jealous man
_ _ And it's bad _ _ _ Leroy [Ab] Brown
[A] The better man in the whole damn [Bb] town
[B] Better than old [C] King Kong
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[Cm] Meaner than a [G] junkyard dog
Well them two men took to fighting
[Ab] And [A] when they pulled down from the floor
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Leroy looked [C] like a jigsaw puzzle [G] with a couple [Am] of pieces [G] gone
_ And it's bad _ _ _ Leroy [Ab] Brown
[A] The better man in the whole damn town
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