Bad Bad Leroy Brown Chords & Guitar Lesson
Welcome to my Bad, Bad Leroy Brown chords chart by Jim Croce. Jim is an amazing songwriter and guitar player. He’s got some really great fingerpicking songs like Time in a Bottle.
I’ve have students in more course asking me about a Jim Croce song for a while and Leroy Brown is an amazing song for practicing a variety of 7 chords.
Now if you don’t know 7 chords, you can use the regular chords, for example D7 play D. It will work fine, but it won’t sound exactly like the song.
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Bad Bad Leroy Brown Guitar Chords:
Bad Bad Leroy Brown Strumming Patterns:
The strumming on this song we can keep as a simple shuffle strumming pattern. Or, if you want to spice it up a little bit, you can accent the 2 & 4 beats which I think sounds great on this song.
Strumming:
1 + a 2 + a 3 + a 4 + a
D UD U D UD U
Accented Strumming:
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1 + a 2 + a 3 + a 4 + a
D UD UD U D U
Split Measure Strumming:
D7 C G G D7
1 2 + a 3 4 + a 1 + a 2 + a 3 + a 4 + a
D D UD D U UD U D U D U
Bad Bad Leroy Brown Guitar Lesson:
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Bad Bad Leroy Brown Chord Chart:
Intro:
G G G G
G G G |G D - -|
Verse:
G G
Well, the south side of Chicago
A7 A7
Is the baddest part of town.
B7
And if you go down there
C |D7 - C G| |G D7 - - |
You better just beware of a man name of Leroy Brown.
G G
Now, Leroy more than trouble,
A7 A7
You see he stand about 'bout six foot four.
B7 C
All the downtown ladies call him "treetop lover."
|D7 - C G| |G D7 - - |
All the men just call him "sir."
Chorus:
G G
And he's bad, bad, Leroy Brown,
A7 A7
The baddest man in the whole damn town.
B7 C
Badder than old King Kong
|D7 - C G| |G D7 - - |
And meaner than a junkyard dog.
Verse:
G G
Now, Leroy, he a gambler,
A7 A7
and he like his fancy clothes.
B7 C
And he like to wave diamond rings
|D7 - C G| |G D7 - - |
in front of everybody's nose
G G
He got a custom Continental.
A7 A7
He got an Eldorado too.
B7 C
He got a thirty-two gun in his pocket for fun.
|D7 - C G| |G D7 - - |
He got a razor in his shoe.
Chorus:
G G
And he's bad, bad, Leroy Brown,
A7 A7
The baddest man in the whole damn town.
B7 C
Badder than old King Kong
|D7 - C G| |G D7 - - |
And meaner than a junkyard dog.
Verse:
G G
Well, Friday 'bout a week ago,
A7 A7
Leroy's shootin' dice.
B7 C
And at the edge of the bar sat a girl name of Doris
|D7 - C G| |G D7 - - |
and oh, that girl look nice
G G
Well, he cast his eyes upon her
A7 A7
and the trouble soon began.
B7 C
And Leroy Brown, he learned a lesson 'bout messin'
|D7 - C G| |G D7 - - |
with the wife of a jealous man
Chorus:
G G
And he's bad, bad, Leroy Brown,
A7 A7
The baddest man in the whole damn town.
B7 C
Badder than old King Kong
|D7 - C G| |G D7 - - |
And meaner than a junkyard dog.
Verse: (one Strum)
G G
Well, the two men took to fightin'
A7 A7
And when they pulled them from the floor,
B7 C
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a
|D7 - C G| |G D7 - - |
couple of pieces gone.
Chorus: Repeat Twice
G G
And he's bad, bad, Leroy Brown,
A7 A7
The baddest man in the whole damn town.
B7 C
Badder than old King Kong
|D7 - C G| |G D7 - - |
And meaner than a junkyard dog.
Outro:
B7 C
Yes, you were badder than old King Kong
|D7 - C G| G
And meaner than a junkyard dog.
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