Sentient Cement Coverpile - Jim Croce

Leroy Brown - Jim Croce

G5(35-|-37-|-) (x8) D7||
              G5(35-|37-35)                       A5(57-|59-57)
Well the south side of Chicago .. is the baddest part of town
                  B5(79)    B5                     C5(810) C5
And if you go down there you better just be - ware
          D            C        G          D7|||-|||
Of a man named Leroy Brown
         G5(35-|37-35)                                    A5(57-|59-57)
Now Leroy more than trouble .. you see he stand about 'bout six foot four
            B5            B5                 C          C               D          C   G D7
All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover all the men just call him sir

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                 G      G        | | - | |        A                     A                  A         |||
And he's bad . bad Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole damn town
            B             B   C2 | | - | | D         D                C    G D7|||-|||
Badder than old King Kong . . . . meaner than a junkyard dog           }

         G5(35-|37-35)                   A5(57-|59-57)
Now Leroy he a gambler and he like his fancy clothes
            B5(79) B5           C5(810)C5                  D     C       G   D7|||-|||
And he like to wave that diamond ring in front of everybody's nose
              G5(35-|37-35)                       A5(57-|59-57)
He got a custom Continental, he got an Eldorado too
              B5            B5          C5            C5               D      C       G D7|||-|||
He got a thirty-two gun in his pocket for fun he got a razor in his shoe

[REFRAIN]

        G5(35-|37-35)                A5(57-|59-57)
Well Friday 'bout a week ago, Leroy's shootin' dice
                 B5(79)       B5         C              C            /D D     C              G  D7|||-|||
And at the edge of the bar sat a girl named Doris and oh that girl looked nice
              G5(35-|37-35)                       A5(57-|59-57)
Well he cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began
       B5      B5                         C5              C5                     D           C         G   D7
Ol' Leroy Brown he learned a lesson 'bout messin' with the wife of a jealous man

[REFRAIN]

              G5(35-|37-35)                                     A5(57-|59-57)
Well the two men took to fightin' and when they pulled them from the floor
B5      B5                C5      C5                D            C         G   D7|||-|||
Ol' Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone

[REFRAIN] (x2)

              B7         B7       C7 - || - ||    D                   C             G
He was badder than old King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog

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Full song title: Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
Written by Jim Croce