"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. ###
