The Best Jim Croce Lyrics, Part 2
, Bad Leroy Brown". This was Croce's first number one song and another example of someone who runs into someone tougher than himself. "Leroy" was a real person whom Croce said he had met at either Fort Jackson, South Carolina or For Dix, New Jersey, depending on the version of the story. Croce and Leroy were in lineman (i.e. telephone) school but Leroy only stayed a week, leaving AWOL super lyrics to go home and returning only to get his paycheck. The military caught him, arrested him and led him away in handcuffs. And, yes, Croce really knew some "junkyard dogs". It seems that Croce was driving extremely cheap cars that needed parts. So he would make the rounds of junkyards looking Jim Croce managed to write a batch of wonderful songs before his premature death. Not many folks wrote songs like he did. His lyrical style could be clever, funny, and touching (sometimes all of them at once). As one who knew his lyrics by heart let me offer you my suggestions ...