Tablature mr bad example - Warren Zevon

          



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  Mr. Bad Example

  by Warren Zevon

  as it appears on the album "Learning to Flinch"

  Faithfully transcribed by Jeremy Sarna

  

  

  E                                        B7

  I started as an altar boy working in the church

  B7                                        E

  Learning all my holy moves and doing some research

  E                                              A7

  Which led me to a cash box labelled "Children's Fund"

  A7                   E                B7              E

  I left the coins and tucked the bills inside my cummerbund

  

  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:

  

      A7        E         B7           E

  I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt

     A7            E                B7                 E

  I like to have a good time and I don't care who gets hurt

      A7        E      B7             E   

  I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me

       A7           E              B7         E

  I'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy

  

  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!

  

  

   


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 Mr bad example, de Warren zevon 

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