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	E	B7
	I started as an altar boy working in the	church

	B7	E
	Learning all my holy moves and doing some	research

	E	A7
	Which led me to a cash box labelled "Children's	Fund"

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	I left the coins and	tucked the bills	inside my cummer	bund

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

CHORUS:

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I'm	Mr. Bad Ex	ample, int	ruder in the	dirt

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I l	ike to have a	good time and I d	on't care who gets	hurt

	A7	E	B7	E
I'm	Mr. Bad Ex	ample,	take a look at	me

	A7	E	B7	E
I'll	live to be a	hundred and go	down in inf	amy

Of course I went to law school, took a law degree

Counselled 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 faire

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

Headed for the airport and the midnight flight, you dig?

Fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide

Flipping 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

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

And I'll see you in the next life, wake me up for meals!

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Mr Bad Example

Warren Zevon

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