Dnext

Not today--I gotta check in with my parole officer.
Gonna tell him I got them steadily depressin' low down mind messin' workin' at the carwash blues.

#JimCroce

https://youtu.be/1SULVCWbFUI?si=bwrVTR1AnIGbtp3P

Michael

July 24, 2022 7:52am

It's very rare I see something pop up on Twitter (to which I'm not often glued) from the realm of golden oldie music.
This caught my eye, and even rarer, I replied. Tweet tweet!_ I'm ba-a-ad!_

Where have I heard that before? Sam the Sham, MJ, Billie Eilish...) I have not heard his name nor music in a long time. Wow.
He was... 'bad to the bone', this...

Bad Boy Leroy Brown

Well, here's one movie, with his song. The one about him, point taken, is largely unsung. Ripe for a #movie / #biography

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LYRICS:

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 mens just call him "sir"

And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn 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 32 gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe

And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Well friday bout a week ago
Leroy shootin' dice
And at the edge of the bar
Sat a girl named doris
And ooh that girl looked nice
Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
And leroy brown learned a lesson
'bout messin' with the wife of a jealous man

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,

Well the two men took to fightin'
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone

And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

#film #music #JimCroce #LeroyBrown #musica #musique #1973 #ClassicRock