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:
DO SOL7 DO SOL7 DO SOL7 DO SOL7+5
Bring back, bring back, bring back that Leroy Brown - Yeah!
Bring back, bring back, gotta ring that Leroy Brown - Yeah!
Verse:
DO SOL+ DO 1dim LAm
Bet your bottom dollar bill you're a playboy - yeah, yeah
DO FA SOL7 DO DO REm7 1dim DO/MI
Daddy cool with a ninety dollar smile (oooh------------)
LAm SOL#dim LAm DO#dim
Took my money out of gratitude, and he git right out of town
DO SI7 SIb7 LA7
Well, I gotta getty up, steady up, shoot him down
REm7 1dim SOL7 DO SOL7+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!
DO
Woo-woo, big bad Leroy, woo-ooo
LAm MI7 LAm LAm 2dim SOL7 SOL7 DO SOL7+5
Woo-woo, big bad Leroy - Brown!
DO SOL7 DO
Big Momma Lula Belle, she had a nervous breakdown
MI7/SOL# LAm
(nervous breakdown)
DO SOL7 DO MIm/SI LAm
Leroy's taken her honey-chile away
FA LAm REm7 LAm
But she met him at the station, put a shotgun to his head
REm FA SI7 SOL7
And unless I be mistaken, this is what she said:
DO (C) 2dim LAm
Big bad, big boy, big bad Leroy Brown,
SOL7 DO SOL7
I'm gonna get that cutie pie
Bring back, bring back, bring back that Leroy Brown - Yeah!
DO SOL7 DO 2dim LAm
Big bad caused a mighty fine sensation - yeah yeah
DO SOL7 DO
Gone and got himself elected president
REm7 1dim DO/MI FA LA7 RE7 SOL7
(we want) Le - roy for president
DO
Next time, you gotta hit a bitty baddy weather
(C)
This time, like a shimmy shammy leather
REm7 LAm
He's a big boy, bad boy, Leroy
DO SOL/SI LAm 1dim
I don't care where you get him from
DO SI7 DO SOL7 DO
Bring that Leroy Brown back - want him back.
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