Posted on Apr 27, 2022

Jim Croce - Bad Bad, Leroy Brown | Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live

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Song was inspired by Croce's time in the National Guard from a fellow trainee named Leroy Brown. Leroy Brown went AWOL thinking that he was a tough guy...then returned to the base and got arrested by the MPs

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bad-bad-leroy-brown-194284/

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

While serving in the National Guard — which Croce joined to avoid fighting in Vietnam — Jim Croce was inspired by a fellow guardsman he occasionally sang with. "This one particul…

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