Warren Zevon – Mr Bad Example (Guitar)
Capo 2
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar
Ukulele
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1.0x
Chords
by Warren Zevon
as it appears on the album "Learning to Flinch"
Faithfully transcribed by Jeremy Sarna
[Intro]
E
[Verse]
E B7 I started as an altar boy working at the church B7 E Learning all my holy moves and doing some research. E A Which led me to a cash box, labelled "Children's Fund" A E B7 E I'd leave the change and tucked the bills inside my cummerbund. E B7 I got a part time job at my father's carpet store B7 E Laying tackless stripping and housewives by the score. E A I loaded up their furniture and took it to Spokane A E B7 E and auctioned off every last Naugahyde divan. E B7 I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins B7 E I keep a busy schedule, trying to fit them in. E A I'm proud to be a glutton and I don't have time for sloth A E B7 E I'm greedy and I'm angry and I don't care who I cross.
[Chorus]
A E B7 E I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt A E B7 E I like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt. A E B7 E I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me A E B7 E B7 I'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy.
[Verse]
E B7 Of course I went to law school, and took a law degree B7 E And counselled all my clients, to plead insanity. E A Then worked in hair replacement, swindling the bald A E B7 E Where very few are chosen, and fewer still are called. E B7 Then on to Monte Carlo to play chemin de faire B7 E I threw away the fortune, I made transplanting hair. E A I put my last few francs down on a prostitute A E B7 E Who took me up to her room to perform the flag salute. E B7 Whereupon I stole her passport and her wig B7 E And headed for the airport and the midnight flight, you dig? E A And fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide A E B7 E Looking through the want ads sipping Fosters in the shade. E B7 I opened up an agency somewhere down the line B7 E To hire aboriginals to work the opal mines. E A But I attached their wages and took a whopping cut A E B7 E And whisked away their workman's comp and pauperized the lot.
[Chorus]
A E B7 E I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt A E B7 E I like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt. A E B7 E I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me A E B7 E B7 I'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy
[Verse]
E B7 I bought a first class ticket on Malaysian Air B7 E And landed in Sri Lanka, none the worse for wear. E A I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals A E B7 E E I'll see you in the next life, wake me up for meals!