Jim Croce
Jim Croce
Jim Croce
Jim Croce
Jim Croce
Jim Croce
Jim Croce
Jim Croce
Jim Croce
Jim Croce
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Jim Croce’s 1973 song from the album Life and Times. The song topped the US pop chart in the summer of 1973 and was still there when Croce died in a plane crash in Louisiana in September that year.
Croce’s widow shared in The Story Behind The Song that over 30 people have claimed to be the Leroy Br...
Well the South side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named Leroy Brown
Now Leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four
All the downtown ladies call him "Treetop Lover"
All the men just call him "Sir"
And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog
Now Leroy he a gambler
And he like his fancy clothes
And he like to wave his diamond rings
In front of everybody's nose
He got a custom Continental
He got an Eldorado too
He got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe
And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong
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 ooh that girl looked nice
Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
Leroy Brown he learned a lesson 'bout messin'
With the wife of a jealous man
And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog
Well the two men took to fightin'
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone
And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog
And he’s bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog
Badder than old King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog
Bad Bad Leroy Brown was written by Jim Croce.
Bad Bad Leroy Brown was produced by Tommy West & Terry Cashman.
Jim Croce released Bad Bad Leroy Brown on Tue Mar 20 1973.
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Croce’s widow shared in The Story Behind The Song his inspiration for this song:
Leroy Brown is somebody I met in the United States Army when I was in basic training in the Army National Guard in Fort Dix … one night he said he didn’t like it there anymore and he was gonna go home. So he did. He we...