Lirik dan Chord Lagu Bad Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Pada 1 Juli 1973 musisi asal Amerika, Jim Croce merilis sebuah lagu yang berjudul "Bad Bad Leroy Brown".

Lagu tersebut menjadi trek kedelapan dari 11 lagu dalam album studio keempatnya yang bertajuk Life and Times. 

Berikut lirik dan chord lagu "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" dari Jim Croce.

[Verse]
                    G
Well, the south side of Chicago
                   A7
Is the baddest part of town.
                    B7
And if you go down there
C            D             C             G
You better just beware of a man named 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."
D             C                   G
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
D                C                G
And meaner than a junkyard dog.

[Verse]

                  G
Now, Leroy, he a gambler,
                   A7
and he likes his fancy clothes.
B7                      C
And he likes to wave diamond rings
D                 C           G
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.
D             C                 G
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
D             C                G
And meaner than a junkyard dog.

[Verse]

                  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
D                 C         G
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'
D                 C                              G
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
D          C                        G
And meaner than a junkyard dog.

[Bridge]

              G
Well, the two men took to fightin'
                 A7
And when they pulled them from the floor,
B7            C             D             C         G
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone.

[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
D              C                   G
And meaner than a junkyard dog.

B7                C
Yes, you were badder than old King Kong
D             C                   G
And meaner than a junkyard dog.

[Outro]

G // A7 // B7 // C // D / C / G /