Mr. Bad Example Chords by Warren Zevon
Tempo:
99.8 bpm
Chords used:
F#
C#
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[F#]
I started as an older boy, working [C#] at the church, learning all my holy moves, doing [F#] some research, which led me to a cash box labeled [B] Children's Fund.
I'd leave the [F#] change and tuck the [C#] bills inside my [F#] cummerbund.
I got a part-time job at my father's [C#] carpet store, being tactless, flipping, and housewives [F#] by the score.
I loaded up their furniture and took it to [B] Spokane, and auctioned [F#] off every [C#] last nog of hide [F#] to them.
I'm very well acquainted with the seven [C#] deadly sins.
I keep a busy schedule, trying to [F#] fit them in.
I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time [B] for sloth.
I'm greedy, [F#] and I'm angry, [C#] and I don't [F#] care who I cause.
[B] I'm Mr.
[F#] Bad Example, [C#] intruder in [F#] the dirt.
[B] I like to [F#] have a good time, [C#] and I don't care who [F#] gets hurt.
[B] I'm Mr.
[F#] Bad Example, [C#] take a look [F#] at me.
[B] I live to be [F#] a hundred [C#] and go down in [F#] infamy.
[C#]
[F#] Of course, I went to law school and took a law [C#] degree, and counseled all my clients to bleed [F#] insanity.
Been working in hair replacements, spindling [B] the ball, where [F#] very few are chosen [C#] and fewer still [F#] are called.
Been on the Monty Carlo to play [C#] Shemander Fair.
I threw away the fortune I made [F#] transplanting hair.
I put my last few francs down on a [B] prostitute who took me up [F#] to her room to [C#] perform the black [F#] salute.
Thereupon I stole her passport and [C#] her wig and headed for the airport in a midnight flight, [F#] you dig.
And fourteen hours later I was down in [B] Adelaide, looking through [F#] the wall that's sitting [C#] Foster's in [F#] the shade.
I opened up an agency somewhere down [C#] the line to hire aboriginals to work the Oak [F#] Grove mines.
But I attached their wages and took a whopping [B] cut, and whisked away [F#] their workman's comp [C#] and paparazzi [F#] the law.
[B] I'm Mr.
Bad [F#] Example, [C#] intruder in [F#] the dirt.
[B]
I like to have [F#] a good time, [C#] and I don't care who [F#] gets hurt.
[B] I'm Mr.
Bad [F#] Example, [C#] take a look [F#] at me.
[B] I live to be [F#] a hundred and [C#] go down in infamy.
[F#] I bought a first class ticket on the [C#] Legendaire, and landed in Sri Lanka.
None the worse [F#] for wear.
I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty [B] deals.
I'll see you in [F#] the next flight, [C#] wake me up [F#] for meals.
I started as an older boy, working [C#] at the church, learning all my holy moves, doing [F#] some research, which led me to a cash box labeled [B] Children's Fund.
I'd leave the [F#] change and tuck the [C#] bills inside my [F#] cummerbund.
I got a part-time job at my father's [C#] carpet store, being tactless, flipping, and housewives [F#] by the score.
I loaded up their furniture and took it to [B] Spokane, and auctioned [F#] off every [C#] last nog of hide [F#] to them.
I'm very well acquainted with the seven [C#] deadly sins.
I keep a busy schedule, trying to [F#] fit them in.
I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time [B] for sloth.
I'm greedy, [F#] and I'm angry, [C#] and I don't [F#] care who I cause.
[B] I'm Mr.
[F#] Bad Example, [C#] intruder in [F#] the dirt.
[B] I like to [F#] have a good time, [C#] and I don't care who [F#] gets hurt.
[B] I'm Mr.
[F#] Bad Example, [C#] take a look [F#] at me.
[B] I live to be [F#] a hundred [C#] and go down in [F#] infamy.
[C#]
[F#] Of course, I went to law school and took a law [C#] degree, and counseled all my clients to bleed [F#] insanity.
Been working in hair replacements, spindling [B] the ball, where [F#] very few are chosen [C#] and fewer still [F#] are called.
Been on the Monty Carlo to play [C#] Shemander Fair.
I threw away the fortune I made [F#] transplanting hair.
I put my last few francs down on a [B] prostitute who took me up [F#] to her room to [C#] perform the black [F#] salute.
Thereupon I stole her passport and [C#] her wig and headed for the airport in a midnight flight, [F#] you dig.
And fourteen hours later I was down in [B] Adelaide, looking through [F#] the wall that's sitting [C#] Foster's in [F#] the shade.
I opened up an agency somewhere down [C#] the line to hire aboriginals to work the Oak [F#] Grove mines.
But I attached their wages and took a whopping [B] cut, and whisked away [F#] their workman's comp [C#] and paparazzi [F#] the law.
[B] I'm Mr.
Bad [F#] Example, [C#] intruder in [F#] the dirt.
[B]
I like to have [F#] a good time, [C#] and I don't care who [F#] gets hurt.
[B] I'm Mr.
Bad [F#] Example, [C#] take a look [F#] at me.
[B] I live to be [F#] a hundred and [C#] go down in infamy.
[F#] I bought a first class ticket on the [C#] Legendaire, and landed in Sri Lanka.
None the worse [F#] for wear.
I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty [B] deals.
I'll see you in [F#] the next flight, [C#] wake me up [F#] for meals.
Key:
F#
C#
B
F#
C#
B
F#
C#
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I started as an older boy, working [C#] at the church, learning all my holy moves, doing [F#] some research, which led me to a cash box labeled [B] Children's Fund.
I'd leave the [F#] change and tuck the [C#] bills inside my [F#] cummerbund.
I got a part-time job at my father's [C#] carpet store, being tactless, flipping, and housewives [F#] by the score.
I loaded up their furniture and took it to [B] Spokane, and auctioned [F#] off every [C#] last nog of hide [F#] to them.
I'm very well acquainted with the seven [C#] deadly sins.
I keep a busy schedule, trying to [F#] fit them in.
I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time [B] for sloth.
I'm greedy, [F#] and I'm angry, [C#] and I don't [F#] care who I cause.
[B] I'm Mr.
[F#] Bad Example, [C#] intruder in [F#] the dirt.
[B] I like to [F#] have a good time, [C#] and I don't care who [F#] gets hurt.
[B] I'm Mr.
[F#] Bad Example, [C#] take a look [F#] at me.
[B] I live to be [F#] a hundred [C#] and go down in [F#] infamy.
[C#]
[F#] Of course, I went to law school and took a law [C#] degree, and counseled all my clients to bleed [F#] insanity.
Been working in hair replacements, spindling [B] the ball, where [F#] very few are chosen [C#] and fewer still [F#] are called.
Been on the Monty Carlo to play [C#] Shemander Fair.
I threw away the fortune I made [F#] transplanting hair.
I put my last few francs down on a [B] prostitute who took me up [F#] to her room to [C#] perform the black [F#] salute. _
Thereupon I stole her passport and [C#] her wig and headed for the airport in a midnight flight, [F#] you dig.
And fourteen hours later I was down in [B] Adelaide, looking through [F#] the wall that's sitting [C#] Foster's in [F#] the shade.
I opened up an agency somewhere down [C#] the line to hire aboriginals to work the Oak [F#] Grove mines.
But I attached their wages and took a whopping [B] cut, and whisked away [F#] their workman's comp [C#] and paparazzi [F#] the law.
[B] I'm Mr.
Bad [F#] Example, [C#] intruder in [F#] the dirt.
[B]
I like to have [F#] a good time, [C#] and I don't care who [F#] gets hurt.
[B] I'm Mr.
Bad [F#] Example, [C#] take a look [F#] at me.
[B] I live to be [F#] a hundred and [C#] go down in infamy.
[F#] I bought a first class ticket on the [C#] Legendaire, and landed in Sri Lanka.
None the worse [F#] for wear.
I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty [B] deals.
I'll see you in [F#] the next flight, [C#] wake me up [F#] for meals.
I started as an older boy, working [C#] at the church, learning all my holy moves, doing [F#] some research, which led me to a cash box labeled [B] Children's Fund.
I'd leave the [F#] change and tuck the [C#] bills inside my [F#] cummerbund.
I got a part-time job at my father's [C#] carpet store, being tactless, flipping, and housewives [F#] by the score.
I loaded up their furniture and took it to [B] Spokane, and auctioned [F#] off every [C#] last nog of hide [F#] to them.
I'm very well acquainted with the seven [C#] deadly sins.
I keep a busy schedule, trying to [F#] fit them in.
I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time [B] for sloth.
I'm greedy, [F#] and I'm angry, [C#] and I don't [F#] care who I cause.
[B] I'm Mr.
[F#] Bad Example, [C#] intruder in [F#] the dirt.
[B] I like to [F#] have a good time, [C#] and I don't care who [F#] gets hurt.
[B] I'm Mr.
[F#] Bad Example, [C#] take a look [F#] at me.
[B] I live to be [F#] a hundred [C#] and go down in [F#] infamy.
[C#]
[F#] Of course, I went to law school and took a law [C#] degree, and counseled all my clients to bleed [F#] insanity.
Been working in hair replacements, spindling [B] the ball, where [F#] very few are chosen [C#] and fewer still [F#] are called.
Been on the Monty Carlo to play [C#] Shemander Fair.
I threw away the fortune I made [F#] transplanting hair.
I put my last few francs down on a [B] prostitute who took me up [F#] to her room to [C#] perform the black [F#] salute. _
Thereupon I stole her passport and [C#] her wig and headed for the airport in a midnight flight, [F#] you dig.
And fourteen hours later I was down in [B] Adelaide, looking through [F#] the wall that's sitting [C#] Foster's in [F#] the shade.
I opened up an agency somewhere down [C#] the line to hire aboriginals to work the Oak [F#] Grove mines.
But I attached their wages and took a whopping [B] cut, and whisked away [F#] their workman's comp [C#] and paparazzi [F#] the law.
[B] I'm Mr.
Bad [F#] Example, [C#] intruder in [F#] the dirt.
[B]
I like to have [F#] a good time, [C#] and I don't care who [F#] gets hurt.
[B] I'm Mr.
Bad [F#] Example, [C#] take a look [F#] at me.
[B] I live to be [F#] a hundred and [C#] go down in infamy.
[F#] I bought a first class ticket on the [C#] Legendaire, and landed in Sri Lanka.
None the worse [F#] for wear.
I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty [B] deals.
I'll see you in [F#] the next flight, [C#] wake me up [F#] for meals.