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Bad, Bad Leroy?

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Does any of you know the song Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce? It’s an old, old song. See below for the lyrics.

Thanks to Bex for this bit of trivia. ;)

Now if I can only find the song and listen to it…

"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" (As recorded by Jim Croce) JIM CROCE

Lyrics courtesy of
http://www.superseventies.com/sl_badbadleroybrown.html

"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"

(As recorded by Jim Croce)
JIM CROCE

Woah!

Well ‘ole south side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man name of Leroy Brown

Now Leroy more than trouble
You see he stand about six foot four
All those downtown ladies call him "Treetop Lover"
All the mens just call him "Sir"

And he’s bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than a-old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Now Leroy he a gambler
And he like his fancy clothes
And he like to wear his diamond rings
In front of everybody’s nose

He got a custom Continental
He got a Eldorado too
He got a .32 gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe

And he’s bad (bad) bad (bad) Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than a-old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Well Friday ’bout a week ago
Leroy shootin’ dice
And at the edge of the bar
Sat a girl named Doris
And oo that girl looked nice

Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
And Leroy Brown had learned a lesson ’bout a-messin’
With the wife of a jealous man

And he’s bad (bad) bad (bad) Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than a-old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Well the two men took to fighting
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone

And it’s bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than a-old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

And he’s bad (bad) bad (bad) Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than a-old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Yeah he was badder than a-old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog.

(c) Copyright 1972 by Blendingwell Music, Inc. (c) Copyright 1972 in U.S.A. and
Canada Blendingwell Music, Inc. and Wingate Music Corp. All rights reserved.
Licensing Agent: Publishers’ Licensing Corporation, 40 West 55th St., New York,
New York 10019.

- SONG HITS, Summer 1974.

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Bad Bad Leroy Brown Music Video by Jim Croce:
http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/croce_jim/artist.jhtml…

Posted by Gerry A at June 20, 2006, 8:34 am

[1] wow thanks! Just watched the video, and as with old MTVs, it's just the artists/singers singing the song. It has a pretty catchy tune, and the story made me think of Lola in Copacobana by Barry Manilow (dwinner.free.fr/barrymanillow.html).

Thanks to the link to the site, I think I'll watch more vids there. ;) Thanks for dropping by too. :)

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