Along the south side of Chicago is the baddest part of town And if you go down there you better beware of a cat man Leroy Brown Now Leroy more than trouble you see he stand bout six foot four All the downtown ladies call him Treetop Lover and the gentlemen call him sir He's bad bad Leroy Brown... Leroy Brown the meanest man the whole damn town Meaner than old King Kong and meaner than a junkyard dog
Now Leroy he's a gamblin' man he likes his fancy clothes He like to wave his diamond rings in front of everybody's nose He got a custom continental and a Eldorado too He got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun he got a razor in his shoe He's bad bad Leroy Brown...
Well Friday bout a week ago Leroy was shootin' dice And at the edge of the bar sat a girl name Betty and ooh that girl looked nice Well he cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began Ol' Leroy learned a lot about foolin' with the wife of a jealous man He's bad bad Leroy Brown...
Well the two men took to fightin' and when they pulled them from the floor Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone He's bad bad Leroy Brown... He's bad bad Leroy Brown...