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Warren Zevon

Mr. Bad Example

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“Mr. Bad Example” is a song composed by Warren Zevon and Jorge Calderón. It was used as the title track for the album, Mr. Bad Example. It tells the story of a nameless con-man and thief, sung to a polka. During the events of the song, he successfully steals from a church, his father’s carpet store, and even a prostitute he hired. He also has a brief stint as a lawyer, works in hair replacement, and successfully tricks aboriginals he had hired to mine for opal. The song ends with the man retiring from his dirty deals, and asking that when you meet him in the next life you wake him up for meals. Read on...

Song lines: ♪ I like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt ... I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt ... I'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy

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More songs by Warren Zevon (See Charts): Don'T Let Us Get Sick, I'Ll Sleep When I'M Dead, Searching For A Heart, You’re A Whole Different Person When You’re Scared, Frank And Jesse James, Frank And Jesse James (Alternate Version), Transverse City, Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song), Gorilla, You'Re A Desperado, and Tenderness On The Block.

Popular in Rock (See Charts): Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway To Heaven, Beat It, Give In To Me, Wherever You Will Go, Stigmatized, Nothing'S Changed, Hotel California, Imagine, and Nothing Else Matters.

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