Bad Bad Leroy Brown

[vraiblonde]

You know - the baddest man in the whole damn town?

Was he black, white or other?

Standby for the poll...

 

[BS Gal]

He was meaner than a junkyard dog.

 

[K_Jo]

He was obviously black.

 

[Fishn Guy]

I've never met a white Leroy....
Maybe he's the skinny dude from "Last Dragon"?

 

[Dye Tied]

He was obviously black.

I think his momma was white and daddy was black but raised in a bad part of town where he never fit in. It made him mean because he never knew his daddy, who abandoned the family when he was a baby. Momma worked days as a waitress and nights as a hooker so she was never home.
He had a gold tooth and wore a pimp suit and fedora and tried to walk like a brotha.
He was just a poor, misunderstood man.

 

[vraiblonde]

I've never met a white Leroy....

See, and I've never met a black Leroy. To me, that's a white name.

 

[camily]

I voted black. But now I see he was white.

 

[BS Gal]

Article : Leroy Brown.

 

[vraiblonde]

I voted black. But now I see he was white.

Not merely white, but pasty white. He looks like Boo Radley.

 

[Larry Gude]

No...

I think his momma was white and daddy was black but raised in a bad part of town where he never fit in. It made him mean because he never knew his daddy, who abandoned the family when he was a baby. Momma worked days as a waitress and nights as a hooker so she was never home.
He had a gold tooth and wore a pimp suit and fedora and tried to walk like a brotha.
He was just a poor, misunderstood man.

...that was the boy named Sue.

 

[vraiblonde]

Article : Leroy Brown.

He's from Jamaica, not Chicago.

 

[Vince]

Not merely white, but pasty white. He looks like Michael Jackson.

:fixed:

 

[camily]

Hold on!!!!

Queen
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
CHORUS
Bring back, bring back
Bring back that Leroy Brown - yeah

Bring back, bring back
Gotta bring that Leroy Brown - back

Bet your bottom dollar bill you're a playboy

Daddy Cool with a ninety dollar smile
Took my money out of gratitude
And he git right outa town - well

I gotta getty up, steady up, shoot him down
Gotta hit that latitude - babe

[CHORUS REPEAT]

Big bad Leroy Brown he got no common
sense - no, no
He got no brains but he sure gotta lot of style
Can't stand no more in this here jail
I gotta rid myself of this sentence

Gotta get out the heat, step into the shade
Gotta get me there dead or alive - babe

Wooh, wooh, big bad Leroy, wooh, wooh,
Wooh, wooh, big bad Leroy - Brown - well

[CHORUS REPEAT]

Big Mama Lulu Belle she had a nervous breakdown
(She had a nervous breakdown)
Leroy's taken her honey chile away
But she met him down at the station
Put a shot gun to his head
And unless I be mistaken
This is what she said
"Big bad, big boy, big bad Leroy Brown
I'm gonna get that cutie pie"

[CHORUS REPEAT]

Big bad caused a mighty fine sensation

Gone and got himself elected president
(We want Leroy 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
I don't care where you get him from

Bring that big bad Leroy back
Want him back

Now what?????

 

[This_person]

You know - the baddest man in the whole damn town?

Was he black, white or other?

Standby for the poll...

On the Sonny and Cher show, long before music videos, they played the song with a little cartoon showing what was going on. He was black in the cartoon.

I'll try and find it, but I doubt a digital version exists.


Holy crap! I never would have thought there were so many Sonny and Cher show videos!!

I haven't found it, but remember this one:
<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U4LXnwpJulQ&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U4LXnwpJulQ&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

 

[RoseRed]

I've never met a white Leroy....

I know one.

 

[camily]

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce Songfacts
The third comment down (at the bottom) says he was black. It says so right there on the internet so it must be true.

 

[vraiblonde]

Okay this is funny - watch the whole thing:
YouTube - bad bad leroy brown video (slipshotfilms)

 

[This_person]

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce Songfacts
The third comment down (at the bottom) says he was black. It says so right there on the internet so it must be true.

Here it is!

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-X1Beg-enE4&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-X1Beg-enE4&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

 

[Dye Tied]

Okay this is funny - watch the whole thing:
YouTube - bad bad leroy brown video (slipshotfilms)

That looked like Lugnut as the treetop lover

 

[bresamil]

I know one.

Me too.