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Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (chromatic)

by Jim Croce · tab for chromatic harmonica

No bends377 notesHoles 1–4Chromatic

My harp is in

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4 = blow hole 4-4 = draw hole 4’ = bend< = slide in

Well the South side of Chi-ca-go

is the bad-dest part of town

And if you go down there,

you bet-ter just be-ware

Of a man name of Le-roy Brown

Now Le-roy more than trou-ble

You see he stand 'bout six foot four

All the down-town la-dies

call him "Tree-top Lov-er"

All the men just call him "Sir"

And he's bad, bad Le-roy Brown

The bad-dest man in the whole damn town

Bad-der than old King Kong,

and mean-er than a junk-yard dog

Now Le-roy he a gam-bler,

and he like his fan-cy clothes

And he like to wave his dia-mond rings

In front of ev-'ry-bod-y's nose

He got a cus-tom Con-ti-nen-tal,

he got a El- do-ra-do too

He got a thir-ty two gun

in his pock-et for fun

He got a ra-zor in his shoe

And he's bad, bad Le-roy Brown

The bad-dest man in the whole damn town

Bad-der than old King Kong,

and mean-er than a junk-yard dog

Well Fri-day bout a week a-go,

Le-roy shoot-in' dice

And at the edge of the bar

sat a girl name of Dor-is

And oh, that girl looked nice

Well he cast his eyes up-on her

and the trou-ble soon be-gan

and Le-roy Brown he learned a les-son

'bout mess-in' with the wife

of a jeal-ous man

And he's bad, bad Le-roy Brown

The bad-dest man in the whole damn town

Bad-der than old King Kong,

and mean-er than a junk-yard dog

Well the two men took to fight-in'

And when they pulled them from the floor

Le-roy looked like a jig-saw puz-zle

With a cou-ple of piec-es gone

And he's bad, bad Le-roy Brown

The bad-dest man in the whole damn town

Yes, you were

Bad-der than old King Kong,

and mean-er than a junk-yard dog