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 men just call him Sir 



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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 



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 



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Now Friday 'bout a week ago 

Leroy shootin' dice 

And at the edge of the bar 

Sat a girl named Doris 

And oo that girl looked nice 

Well he cast his eyes upon her 

And the trouble soon began 

Cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson 

Bout messin' with the wife of a jealous man 



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Well the two men took to fighting 

And when they pulled them off the floor 

Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle 

With a couple of pieces gone 



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