Mr. Bad Example (Live)-Warren Zevon

[ti:Mr. Bad Example (Live Version)] [ar:Warren Zevon] [al:Learning To Flinch] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mr. Bad Example (Live) - Warren Zevon [00:05.36]I started as an alter boy working at the church [00:08.18] [00:09.31]Learning all my holy moves doing some research [00:12.10] [00:12.99]Which led me to a cash box labeled children's fund [00:17.27]I'd leave the change [00:18.26]And tuck the bills inside my cummerbund [00:20.83] [00:21.71]I got a part time job at my father's carpet store [00:25.64]Laying tackless stripping [00:27.45]And housewives by the score [00:29.80]I loaded up their furniture [00:31.74]And took it to Spokane [00:33.90]And auctioned off every last naugahyde divan [00:37.03] [00:38.23]I'm very well aquainted with the seven deadly sins [00:42.17]I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in [00:46.38]I'm proud to be a glutton [00:48.52]And I don't have time for sloth [00:50.63]I'm greedy and I'm angry [00:52.54]And I don't care who I cross [00:54.84]I'm Mr Bad Example intruder in the dirt [00:58.94]I like to have a good time [01:01.28]And I don't care who gets hurt [01:03.16]I'm Mr Bad Example take a look at me [01:07.22]I'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy [01:11.64]Of course I went to law school and took a law degree [01:15.67]And counseled all my clients to plead insanity [01:19.84]Then worked in hair replacement swindling the bald [01:24.02]Where very few are chosen and fewer still are called [01:28.25]Then on to Monte Carlo to play chemin de fer [01:32.32]I threw away the fortune I made transplanting hair [01:36.60]I put my last few francs down on a prostitute [01:40.60]Who took me up to her room to perform the flag salute [01:45.22]Whereupon I stole her passport and her wig [01:48.67] [01:49.33]And headed for the airport [01:51.36]And the midnight flight you dig [01:53.42]And fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide [01:57.76]Looking through the want ads sipping fosters in the shade [02:02.09]I opened up an agency somewhere down the line [02:06.15]To hire aboriginals to work the opal mines [02:10.27]But I attached their wages and took a whopping cut [02:14.36]And whisked away their workman's comp [02:16.75]And pauperized the lot [02:18.65]I'm Mr Bad Example intruder in the dirt [02:22.78]I like to have a good time [02:25.16]And I don't care who gets hurt [02:27.15]I'm Mr Bad Example take a look at me [02:31.45]I'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy [02:35.72]I bought a first class ticket on Malaysian Air [02:39.91]And landed in Sri Lanka none the worse for wear [02:44.19]I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals [02:48.36]I'll see you in the next life wake me up for meals