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From: TRANSCONTINENTAL HOBBYHORSE <JSARNA@vax.clarku.edu> Mr. Bad Example by Warren Zevon as it appears on the album "Learning to Flinch" Faithfully transcribed by Jeremy Sarna
EI started as an altar boy working in the B7church B7Learning all my holy moves and doing some Eresearch EWhich led me to a cash box labelled "ChildA7ren's Fund" A7I left the coins and Etucked the bills B7inside my cummerEbund
I got a part time job at my father's carpet store Laying tackless stripping and housewives by the score I loaded up their furniture and took it to Spokane and auctioned off every last Naugahyde divan I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in I'm proud to be a glutton and I don't have time for sloth I'm greedy and I'm angry and I don't care who I cross CHORUS:
I'm A7Mr. Bad ExEample, intB7ruder in the Edirt I lA7ike to have a Egood time and I dB7on't care who gets Ehurt I'm A7Mr. Bad ExEample, B7take a look at Eme I'll A7live to be a Ehundred and go B7down in infEamy
Of course I went to law school, took a law degree Counselled all my clients to plead insanity Then worked in hair replacement swindling the bald Where very few are chosen and fewer still are called Then on to Monte Carlo to play chemin de faire I threw away the fortune I made transplanting hair I put my last few francs down on a prostitute Who took me up to her room to perform the flag salute Whereupon I stole her passport and her wig Headed for the airport and the midnight flight, you dig' Fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide Flipping through the want ads sipping Fosters in the shade I opened up an agency somewhere down the line To hire aboriginals to work the opal mines But I attached their wages and took a whopping cut Whisked away their workman's comp and pauperized the lot CHORUS I bought a first class ticket on Malaysian Air Landed in Sri Lanka none the worse for wear I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals And I'll see you in the next life, wake me up for meals!