Big Bad Leroy Brown

BRING BACK THAT LEROY BROWN

(Freddie Mercury/Queen. From the albumn _Sheer Heart Attack_.)

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:

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!

C G+ C 1dim Am

Bet your bottom dollar bill you're a playboy - yeah, yeah

C F G7 C C Dm7 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!

C G7 C 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

(C)

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

czth@musica.mcgill.ca