Big Bad Leroy Brown Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

C, B7, A♯7, A7, Dm7, C♯dim, G7, C, G7(#5) run. (Whoosh!) Once you

can play that, the rest of the song is a cinch.

 Chords: G7(#5) = xx1001, G♯dim = xx0101,

  C/E = xx2010,

1dim = xx1212, 2dim = xx2323 (don't know the names,

but they're diminished chords)

Refrain

C G7 C G7 C G7 C G7+5

Bring back, bring back, bring back that Leroy Brown - Yeah!

Bring back, bring back, gotta ring that Leroy Brown - Yeah!

Verse

C G+ C 1dim Am

AmTook my money out of G♯dimgratitude, and he Amgit right out of townC♯dim

 Well, I gotta Cgetty up, B7steady up, A♯7shoot him A7down

  Dm7 1dim G7 C G7(#5)

Gotta hit that lat - i - tude babe.

Big bad Leroy Brown, he got no common sense - no, no

Got no brains but he sure got a lot of style

Can't stand no more in this here jail

I gotta rid myself of this sentence

Gotta get out of the heat, get into the shade

gotta get me there dead or alive, babe!

CWoo-woo, big bad Leroy, woo-ooo

  Am E7 Am Am 2dim G7 G7 C G7+5

Woo-woo, big bad Leroy - Brown!

CBig Momma Lula Belle,G7 she had a nervous Cbreakdown

 (E7nerG♯vous Ambreakdown)

CLeroy's taken her G7honey-chile aCway Em/B Am

 But she Fmet him at the Amstation, put aDm7 shotgun to hisAm head

 And unDmless I be mistFaken, B7this is what she G7said:

C C 2dim Am

Big bad, big boy, big bad Leroy Brown,

G7I'm gonna get that cutie Cpie G7

Bring back, bring back, bring back that Leroy Brown - Yeah!

C G7 C 2dim Am

Big bad caused a mighty fine sensation - yeah yeah

 Gone and Cgot himself eleG7cted presideCnt

  Dm7 1dim C/E F A7 D7 G7

(we want) Le - roy for president

CNext time, you gotta hit a bitty baddy weather

 TChis time, like a shimmy shammy leather

 He's a Dm7big boy, Ambad boy, Leroy

  C G/B Am 1dim

I don't care where you get him from

CBring that Leroy Brown B7back - Cwant G7him bCack.