Queen – Bring Back That Leroy Brown (Guitar)

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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, Ebdim7, G7, C, G7#5 run. (Whoosh!) Once you can play that, the rest of the song is a cinch. G7#5 xx1001 Ddim7 xx0101 Ebdim7 xx1212 Edim7 xx2323 C/E xx2010 [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! [Verse]
C                      G+            C         Ebdim7  Am
Bet your bottom dollar bill you're a playboy - yeah,  yeah

C                 F      G7     C     C  Dm7  Ebdim7  C/E
Daddy cool with a ninety dollar smile (oooh------------)

Am                   Ddim7             Am                   C#dim7
Took my money out of gratitude, and he git right out of town

              C         B7         Bb7       A7
Well, I gotta getty up, steady up, shoot him down

      Dm7      Ebdim7 G7  C   G7#5
Gotta hit that lat - i - tude babe
[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! [Verse]
C             G+               C              Ebdim7 Am
Big bad Leroy Brown, he got no common sense - no,    no

C                    F          G7     C     (C Dm7 Ebdim C/E)
Got no brains but he sure got a lot of style

Am                     Ddim7
Can't stand no more in this here jail

        Am                    C#dim7
I gotta rid myself of this sentence

      C              B7         Bb7      A7
Gotta get out of the heat, step into the shade

      Dm7          Ebdim7 G7 C     G7#5
gotta get me there dead  or alive, babe!

C
Woo-woo, big bad Leroy, woo-ooo

                       Am  E7     Am  Am  Edim7  G7  G7  C  G7#5
Woo-woo, big bad Leroy  -  Brown!
[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              G7                       C
Big Momma Lulu Belle, she had a nervous breakdown

 E7/G#   Am
(nervous breakdown)

C                 G7           C   Em/B  Am
Leroy's takin' her honey-chile away

        F                   Am            Dm7            Am
But she met him down at the station, put a shotgun to his head

      Dm            F     B7               G7
And unless I be mistaken, this is what she said:

C                                     (C)  Edim7  Am
Big bad, big boy, big bad Leroy Brown,

G7                       C    G7
I'm gonna get that cutie pie

C     G7    C     G7          C         G7    C       G7
Bring back, bring back, bring back that Leroy Brown - Yeah!

C                G7              C       Edim7 Am
Big bad caused a mighty fine sensation - yeah yeah

         C              G7          C
Gone and got himself elected president

    Dm7   Ebdim7 C/E F            (A7  D7  G7)
(we want) Le  - roy for president

C
Next time, you gotta hit a bitty baddy weather

(C)
This time, like a shimmy shammy leather

       Dm7      Am
He's a big boy, bad boy, Leroy

  C          G/B       Am      Ebdim7
I don't care where you get him from

C                      B7      C    G7   C
Bring that Leroy Brown back  - want him back