(Warren Zevon/Jorge Calderon)

I started as an altar boy working at the church
Learning all my holy moves doing some research
Which led me to a cash box labelled "Children's Fund"
I'd leave the change and tuck the bills inside my cumberbund

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
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 Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt
I llike to have a good time and I don't care who gets hurt
I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me
I'll live to be a hundred and go down in history

Of course I went to law school and got a law degree
And counselled 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 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 and her wig
And headed for the airport and the midnight flight, you dig?
Fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide
Looking through the want ads sipping Foster's 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
And 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
See you in the next life, wake me up for meals
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» Heartache Spoken Here
» Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song)
» Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)
» Hitchhikin Woman
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» Hostage-O
» I Have To Leave
» I Was In The House When The House Burned Down
» I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
» I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Stand In The Fire Version)
» I'll Slow You Down
» I'm A One Woman Man
» Iko Iko
» Iko-Iko
» Jeannie Needs A Shooter
» Jesus Mentioned
» Jesus Was A Cross Maker
» Johnny Strikes Up The Band
» Join Me In L.A.
» Jungle Work
» Junko Pardner
» Keep Me in Your Heart
» Knockin' on Heaven's Door
» Laissez-Moi Tranquille
» Lawyers Guns And Money
» Leave My Monkey Alone
» Let Nothing Come Between You
» Life'll Kill Ya
» Like The Seasons
» Looking For The Next Best Thing
» Lord Byron's Luggage
» Lord Byrons Luggage
» Macgillycuddy's Reeks
» Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded
» Mama Couldnt Be Persuaded
» Mannish Boy
» Model Citizen
» Mohammed's Radio
» Mohammed's Radio (Stand In The Fire Version)
» Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse
» Mr Bad Example
» Mutineer
» My Ride's Here
» My Shit's Fucked Up
» Networking
» Never Too Late For Love
» Night Time In The Switching Yard
» Nighttime In The Switching Yard
» Nobody's In Love This Year
» Nobodys in Love This Year
» Numb as a Statue
» Ourselves To Know
» Outside Chance
» Piano Fighter
» Play It All Night Long
» Please Stay
» Poisonous Lookalike
» Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
» Poor, Poor Pitiful Me (Stand In The Fire Version)
» Porcelain Monkey
» Prison Grove
» Quite Ugly One Morning
» Real Or Not
» Reconsider Me
» Renegade
» Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
» Roll With the Punches
» Rottweiler Blues
» Rub Me Raw
» Run Straight Down
» Sacrificial Lambs
» Searching For A Heart
» Seminole Bingo
» Sentimental Hygiene
» She Quit Me
» She's Too Good for Me
» Similar To Rain
» Something Bad Happened To A Clown
» Splendid Isolation
» Stand In The Fire
» Suzie Lightning
» Tenderness On The Block
» The Envoy
» The Factory
» The French Inhaler
» The Heartache
» The Hula Hula Boys
» The Indifference Of Heaven
» The Long Arm Of The Law
» The Overdraft
» The Rest of the Night
» The Sin
» They Moved The Moon
» Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
» Transverse City
» Travelin' Riverside Blues
» Traveling In The Lightning
» Trouble Waiting To Happen
» Tule's Blues
» Turbulence
» Veracruz
» Vigilante Man
» Walkin' Blues
» Wang Dang Doodle
» Wanted Dead Or Alive
» Werewolves Of London
» Werewolves Of London (Stand In The Fire Version)
» Wild Age
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