Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Mr. Bad Example , by - Warren Zevon. Song from the album Mr. Bad Example, in the genre Иностранный рокRelease date: 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 |