JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" merupakan lagu Jim Croce yang dirilis pada 1973.
Lagu ini dirilis melalui album Life & Times yang memuat total 11 buah lagu.
Lagu "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" sempat menjadi peringkat pertama dalam chart Billboard.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" dari Jim Croce.
[Intro]
G D7
[Verse 1]
G
Well, the south side of Chicago
A7
Is the baddest part of town.
B7
And if you go down there
C D7 C G D7
You better just beware of a man name of Leroy Brown.
G
Now, Leroy more than trouble,
A7
You see he stand about 'bout six foot four.
B7 C
All the downtown ladies call him "treetop lover."
D7 C G D7
All the men just call him "sir."
[Chorus]
G
And he's bad, bad, Leroy Brown,
A7
The baddest man in the whole damn town.
B7 C
Badder than old King Kong
D7 C G D7
And meaner than a junkyard dog.
[Verse 2]
G
Now, Leroy, he a gambler,
A7
and he like his fancy clothes.
B7 C
And he like to wave diamond rings
D7 C G D7
in front of everybody's nose
G
He got a custom Continental.
A7
He got an Eldorado too.
B7 C
He got a thirty-two gun in his pocket for fun.
D7 C G D7
He got a razor in his shoe.
[Chorus]
G
And he's bad, bad, Leroy Brown,
A7
The baddest man in the whole damn town.
B7 C
Badder than old King Kong
D7 C G D7
And meaner than a junkyard dog.
[Verse 3]
G
Well, Friday 'bout a week ago,
A7
Leroy's shootin' dice.
B7 C
And at the edge of the bar sat a girl name of Doris
D7 C G D7
and oh, that girl look nice
G
Well, he cast his eyes upon her
A7
and the trouble soon began.
B7 C
And Leroy Brown, he learned a lesson 'bout messin'
D7 C G D7
with the wife of a jealous man
[Chorus]
G
And he's bad, bad, Leroy Brown,
A7
The baddest man in the whole damn town.
B7 C
Badder than old King Kong
D7 C G D7
And meaner than a junkyard dog.
[Verse 4]
G
Well, the two men took to fightin'
A7
And when they pulled them from the floor,
B7 C D7 C G D7
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone.
[Chorus] (x2)
G
And he's bad, bad, Leroy Brown,
A7
The baddest man in the whole damn town.
B7 C
Badder than old King Kong
D7 C G D7
And meaner than a junkyard dog.
[Outro]
B7 C
Yes, you were badder than old King Kong
D7 C G
And meaner than a junkyard dog.