Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (arr. John Fries) by Frank Sinatra Sheet Music for Lead Sheet / Fake Book at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Frank Sinatra

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 2

Arrangement Lead Sheet / Fake Book

Publisher John Fries

Level 4

Product ID 1501415

Genre Blues Pop Standards 20th Century

Instruments C Instruments

Product Description

TYPE JOHN FRIES IN THE SEARCH BAR TO SEE ALL I HAVE TO OFFER. Thanks, John. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is an uptempo, story song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album Life and Times, the song was a No. 1 hit for him, spending two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1973. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1973. Croce's inspiration for the song was a friend he met in his brief time in the US Army: "I met him at Fort Dix, New Jersey. We were in lineman (telephone) school together. He stayed there about a week, and one evening he turned around and said he was really fed up and tired. He went AWOL, and then came back at the end of the month to get his paycheck. They put handcuffs on him and took him away. Just to listen to him talk and see how 'bad' he was, I knew someday I was gonna write a song about him."

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