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Publicity handout of American singer-songwriter Jim Croce for ABC Records

Which lyric does NOT describe Leroy Brown?

Last updated: March 20, 2026

"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is one of my favorite songs, and if I kept score, this question would be worth triple points. Jim Croce described Leroy Brown so thoroughly you could pick him out of a lineup. Which lyric does NOT describe Leroy Brown?

Correct Answer: Crashed his custom Continental

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Leroy Brown is the baddest man in the whole damn town, and hopefully careful with his cars. He owns a custom Continental (and an Eldorado, too), but crashing it never makes it into the song. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1973 and became Croce's only number-one song before he passed away a few months later. For all those intimidating descriptions, Leroy still got his butt whooped and ended up "like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone."

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