Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Mr. Bad Example, artist - Warren Zevon. Album song Mr. Bad Example, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 14.10.1991
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
Mr. Bad Example |
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 labeled «Children's Fund» -- |
I’d leave the change and tuck 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 |
I’m Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt -- |
I like 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 infamy |
Of course I went to law school and 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 and 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 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 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 |
And whisked away their workman’s comp and pauperized the lot |
I’m Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt -- |
I like 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 infamy |
I bought a first class ticket on Malaysian Air |
And landed in Sri Lanka none the worse for wear |
I’m thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals |
I’ll see you in the next life, wake me up for meals |