Jim Croce - Bad Bad, Leroy Brown | Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live

this is another one of those character songs i get out of a university in 1965 totally prepared for life in the 12th century i kind of looked around here looked around there and then i got this brown letter in the mail one day signed by a general said come play with us. so i went down to a place called fort jackson in south carolina where they took my extensive college experience and put me into the infantry as a lineman i climbed telephone poles it was communications yeah stringing that wire from one place to another and i met this guy down there who was in the company his name was leroy brown now leroy was one of those guys that didn't know the meaning of no you tell leroy to do one thing and leroy would do another thing he was just one of those kind of characters he come from chicago been out in the street a long time and had to make his own way so he was about to keep on making it he was down there a couple weeks and he looked at me one night we're sitting talking he says you know jim i don't like this place and i'm gonna go home so he got himself packed up and he went home without telling anybody except in the army they called it awol absent without leave but he did come back at the end of the month to get his paycheck and that was it snap put him in the handcuffs and took him if it didn't bother him he get out a little later and still hung around he was always the kind of guy that would keep people laughing unless he got in trouble with him and this is uh tuna wrote about him just called bad bad leroy brown [Music] little south side of chicago is the better part of town and if you go down there you better just of a man named leroy brown now leroy put in trouble he stand about six foot four huddle downtown ladies garland treetops over all the men just [Music] and he like his fancy clothes and he liked to wear them diamond rings upon everybody's nose they got a custom continental they got an el dorado too he got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun he got a razor in his shoes [Music] shooting dice and at the edge of the bus at a girl named doris and a woo that girl looked nice when he cast his eyes upon her kind of trouble soon began at leroy brown and learned to dance about and messing with the wife of a jealous man and it's bad ben leroy brown the bettest man in the whole damn [Music] [Music] looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone and his bad bad leroy brown the bettest man in the whole damn town [Music] than a junkyard dog yes he was better than old kang khanna dog [Music]

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Id: yTrsS8SGwx4

Length: 4min 26sec (266 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 24 2012

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Another one that left us,way to soon !

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