Big bad leroy brown — Queen
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#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # BRING BACK THAT LEROY BROWN
Brian actually plays this on an ukele banjo. This is only an approximate transcription for guitar. Gotta play it in that fast, Dixie style. (Or is it Charleston? Anyways....) The *really* tough part, where you'll need the most practice, is the C, B7, Bb7, 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: 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 Bet your bottom dollar bill you're a playboy - yeah, yeah 1dim C/E Daddy cool with a ninety dollar smile (oooh------------) Took my money out of gratitude, and he git right out of town Well, I gotta getty up, steady up, shoot him down 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!
Woo-woo, big bad Leroy, woo-ooo Am E7 Am Am 2dim G7 G7 C G7+5 Woo-woo, big bad Leroy - Brown! Big Momma Lula Belle, she had a nervous breakdown (nervous breakdown) Leroy's taken her honey-chile away But she met him at the station, put a shotgun to his head And unless I be mistaken, this is what she said:
C (C) 2dim Am Big bad, big boy, big bad Leroy Brown, I'm gonna get that cutie pie
Bring back, bring back, bring back that Leroy Brown - Yeah!
2dim Am Big bad caused a mighty fine sensation - yeah yeah Gone and got himself elected president Dm7 1dim C/E F A7 D7 G7 (we want) Le - roy for president Next time, you gotta hit a bitty baddy weather This time, like a shimmy shammy leather He's a big boy, bad boy, Leroy C G/B Am 1dim I don't care where you get him from Bring that Leroy Brown back - want him back.
submitted by: Ted Hermary