Biography:
Jim Croce (Jan 10, 1943 - Sept 20, 1973) was an American singer-songwriter from South Philadelphia whose biggest single "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" hit number 1 on the US charts in the summer of 1973. His influences included Ian & Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot and Woody Guthrie. Sadly, Croce died in a small commercial plane crash one day before his third album, "I Got a Name" was to be released.
Early life
Croce was born in South Philadelphia. He graduated from Upper Darby High School in Drexel Hill
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- Age
- Alabama Rain
- Bad Bad Leroy Brown
- Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
- I Got A Name
- I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song
- I've Got A Name
- Lover's Cross
- Next Time This Time
- Operator
- Photographs And Memories
- Time In A Bottle
- Walking Back To Georgia
- Workin' At The Car Wash Blues
- You Don T Mess Around With Jim
- A Good Time Man Like Me Aint Got No Business Sing The Blues
- Another Day Another Town
- Bad Boy Leroy Brown
- Ball Of Kerrymuir
- Big Wheel
- Box 10
- Car Wash Blues
- Careful Man
- Child Of Midnight
- Cotton Mouth River
- Dreamin Again
- Five Short Minutes
- Gunga Din
- Hard Way Every Time
- Hey Tomorrow
- Ill Have To Say I Love You
- Ill Have To Say I Love You In A Song
- It Doesnt Have To Be That Way
- Ive Got A Name
- Kings Song
- Lovers Cross
- Maybe Tomorrow
- Mr Bojangles
- New Yorks Not For Me
- New Yorks Not My Home
- Old Man River
- One Less Set Footsteps
- Railroads And Riverboats
- Rapid Roy The Stock Car Boy
- Recently
- Roller Derby Queen
- Speedball Tucker
- Stone Walls
- Sun Come Up
- The Hard Way Everytime
- These Dreams
- Thursday
- Tomorrows Gonna Be A Brighter Day
- Top Hat Bar And Grille
- Vespers
- Walkin Back To Georgia
- Wear Out The Turnpike
- Which Way Are You Going
- Workin At The Car Wash Blues
- You Dont Mess Around
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Roller Derby Queen - Chords
By Jim Croce
Submitted by hahnmichaelb
[Verse]
E7
Gonna tell you a story you won't believe
A7
But I fell in love last Friday evening
B7 A7 E7
With a girl I saw on the bar room TV screen
E7
Well I was just getting ready to grab my hat
A7
When she caught my eye and I put it back
B7 A7 E7
And I ordered myself a couple more shots and beers
[CHORUS:]
E7 G7 A7 E7
The night that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
(round and round, oh round and round)
G7 A7 B7
Meanest hunk of women that anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
[Verse]
E7
She was five-foot-six and two-fifteen
A7
A bleached-blond mama with a streak of mean
B7 A7 E7
She knew how to knuckle and she knew how to scuffle and fight
E7
The roller derby program said
A7
That she was built like a 'frigerator with a head
B7 A7 E7
Her fans called her Tuffy But all her friends called her Spike
[CHORUS]
(BRIDGE)
E7
Round and round, go round and round
A7
Round and round, go round and round
B7 A7 E7
[Verse]
E7
Well I could not help it but I fell in love
A7
With this heavy duty women I've been speaking of
B7 A7 E7
Things were kinda bad till the day she skated into my life
E7
Well she might be nasty, and she might be fat
A7
But I never met a person who would tell her that
B7 A7 E7
She's my big blonde bomber, my heavy-handed hackensack mama
(CHORUS)
(BRIDGE)
By Jim Croce
Submitted by hahnmichaelb
[Verse]
E7
Gonna tell you a story you won't believe
A7
But I fell in love last Friday evening
B7 A7 E7
With a girl I saw on the bar room TV screen
E7
Well I was just getting ready to grab my hat
A7
When she caught my eye and I put it back
B7 A7 E7
And I ordered myself a couple more shots and beers
[CHORUS:]
E7 G7 A7 E7
The night that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
(round and round, oh round and round)
G7 A7 B7
Meanest hunk of women that anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
[Verse]
E7
She was five-foot-six and two-fifteen
A7
A bleached-blond mama with a streak of mean
B7 A7 E7
She knew how to knuckle and she knew how to scuffle and fight
E7
The roller derby program said
A7
That she was built like a 'frigerator with a head
B7 A7 E7
Her fans called her Tuffy But all her friends called her Spike
[CHORUS]
(BRIDGE)
E7
Round and round, go round and round
A7
Round and round, go round and round
B7 A7 E7
[Verse]
E7
Well I could not help it but I fell in love
A7
With this heavy duty women I've been speaking of
B7 A7 E7
Things were kinda bad till the day she skated into my life
E7
Well she might be nasty, and she might be fat
A7
But I never met a person who would tell her that
B7 A7 E7
She's my big blonde bomber, my heavy-handed hackensack mama
(CHORUS)
(BRIDGE)
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