'Bring Back That Leroy Brown' by Queen - Guitar Tutorial

            

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!
 
 Verse:
 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                   G#dim             Am                   C#dim
 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      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                    G7                 C         
 Big Momma Lula Belle, she had a nervous breakdown 
  E7/G#   Am
 (nervous breakdown)
 C                 G7           C   Em/B  Am
 Leroy`s taken her honey-chile away
         F              Am             Dm7            Am
 But she met him 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)  2dim  Am
 Big bad, big boy, big bad Leroy Brown, 
 G7                       C    G7
 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
          C              G7          C  
 Gone and got himself elected president 
     Dm7   1dim  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      1dim
 I don`t care where you get him from
 C                      B7      C    G7   C
 Bring that Leroy Brown back  - want him back.
 
 
 submitted by:
 Ted Hermary
 czth@musica.mcgill.ca