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Big Bad Leroy Brown

Queen
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
, , , , , , , ,  run. (Whoosh!) Once you
 can play that, the rest of the song is a cinch.
 Chords:  = xx1001,  = xx0101,
   = xx2010,
  1dim = xx1212, 2dim = xx2323 (don't know the names,
  but they're diminished chords)
+5
 Bring back, bring back, bring back that Leroy Brown - Yeah!
 Bring back, bring back, gotta ring that Leroy Brown - Yeah!
+  1dim
Bet your bottom dollar bill you're a playboy - yeah, yeah
1dim /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
   1dim
 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
   2dim +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:
 2dim
 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
 Big bad caused a mighty fine sensation - yeah yeah
 Gone and got  himself elected  president
   1dim
 (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
   1dim
 I don't care where you get him from
Bring  that Leroy Brown back  - want him  back.

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Readable chord sheet for Big Bad Leroy Brown by Queen

[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, [Abdim] = xx0101,
          [C/E] = xx2010,
          1dim = xx1212, 2dim = xx2323  (don't know the names,
                but they're diminished chords)

[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------------)
[Am]Took my money out of [Abdim]gratitude, and he [Am]git right out of town[C#dim]
Well, I gotta [C]getty up, [B7]steady up, [Bb7]shoot him [A7]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!

[C]Woo-woo, big bad Leroy, woo-ooo
                       [Am]  [E7]     [Am]  [Am]  2dim  [G7]  [G7]  [C]  [G7]+5
Woo-woo, big bad Leroy  -  Brown!
[C]Big Momma Lula Belle,[G7] she had a nervous [C]breakdown
([E7]ner[Ab]vous [Am]breakdown)
[C]Leroy's taken her [G7]honey-chile a[C]way [Em/B]       [Am]
But she [F]met him at the [Am]station,  put a[Dm7] shotgun to his[Am] head
And un[Dm]less I be mist[F]aken, [B7]this is what she [G7]said:

[C]                                      [C]   2dim  [Am]
Big bad, big boy, big bad Leroy Brown,
[G7]I'm gonna get that cutie [C]pie  [G7]

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 [C]got himself ele[G7]cted preside[C]nt
    [Dm7]   1dim  [C/E]  [F]            [A7]  [D7]  [G7]
(we want) Le  - roy for president
[C]Next time, you gotta hit a bitty baddy weather
T[C]his time, like a shimmy shammy leather
He's a [Dm7]big boy, [Am]bad boy, Leroy
  [C]          [G/B]       [Am]      1dim
I don't care where you get him from
[C]Bring that Leroy Brown [B7]back  - [C]want [G7]him b[C]ack.

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