Warren Zevon - Mr. Bad Example lyrics

Album: Learning To Flinch (1993)

I started as an alter boy, working at the church
Learning all my holy moves, doing some research
Which led me to a cash box, labeled "Children´s Fund"
I would leave the change, & tuck the bills inside my cummerbund

I got a part-time job at my father´s carpet store
Laying tackless stripping, & housewives by the score
I loaded up their furniture, & took it to Spokane
And auctioned off every last naugahyde divan

I am very well aquain´ted with the seven deadly sins
I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in
I am proud to be a glutton, & I do not have time for sloth
I am greedy, & I am angry, & I do not care who I cross

I am Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt
I like to have a good time, & I do not care who gets hurt
I am Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me
I will live to be a hundred, & go down in infamy

Of course I went to law school & took a law degree
And counseled all my clients to plead insanity
Then worked in hair replacement, swindling the bald
Where very few are chosen, & fewer still are called

Then on to Monte Carlo to play chemin de fer
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 & her wig
And headed for the airport & the midnight flight, you dig?
And fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide
Looking 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 & took a whopping cut
And whisked away their workman´s comp & pauperized the lot

I am Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt
I like to have a good time, & I do not care who gets hurt
I am Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me
I will live to be a hundred & go down in infamy

I bought a 1st class ticket on Malaysian Air
And landed in Sri Lanka none the worse for wear
I am thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals
I will see you in the next life, wake me up for meals


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