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 it's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And 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 thirty-two gun in his pocket
for fun
He got a razor in his shoe.
Well Friday 'bout a week ago Leroy
shootin' dice
And at the edge of the bar sat a girl
named a Doris
And ooh that girl looked nice.
Well, he cast his eyes upon her and
the trouble soon began
And Leroy Brown he learned a lesson
'Bout messin' with the wife of a
jealous man.
Well, the two men took to fighting and
when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone.
Yeah, he was badder than old King
Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog.
Jim Croce's musical career was really coming together in 1973 when he died in a plane crash at age 30. This song is based on a true story but ornate. Jim's wife, Ingrid Croce, told the story this way.
"Jim Croce joined the US
National Guard in 1966, hoping it would keep him from getting sent to Vietnam.
He married Ingrid that year and hoped to continue his education and launch his
music career. Unfortunately, Jim was sent for training less than two weeks
after their wedding. As Ingrid explained, Jim had no interest in being a
soldier and had the distinction of having to repeat basic training. But he did
meet a guy who inspired one of his most famous songs. "Leroy Brown is a
guy that he actually met," said Ingrid. "When he was in the service -
The National Guard - this guy had gone AWOL. He was a guy that Jim kind of
related to, he liked to sing with him. This guy had gone AWOL but he came back
to get his pay check, and he got caught. Jim just thought he was such a funny
guy that he thought he'd include his name in the song, and it just worked.
There really was a Leroy Brown, and sometimes having a name helps you to build
a song around it."
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