{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":88860,"song":"Mr Bad Example","artist":"Warren Zevon","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11550975-mr-bad-example-chords-by-warren-zevon/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/88860?type=chord","rating":4.56384,"votes":24,"content":"NOTE: Capo 2 for recorded key. Warren used no capo for live performances (see Youtube).\r\n\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                                     [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nI started as an altar boy working at the church[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B7[/ch]                                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLearning all my holy moves and doing some research.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhich led me to a cash box, labelled \"Children's Fund\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]B7[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'd leave the change and tucked the bills inside my cummerbund.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                                         [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nI got a part time job at my father's carpet store[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B7[/ch]                                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLaying tackless stripping and housewives by the score.[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI loaded up their furniture and took it to Spokane[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]B7[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand auctioned off every last Naugahyde divan.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                          [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nI'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]B7[/ch]                                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI keep a busy schedule, trying to fit them in.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'm proud to be a glutton and I don't have time for sloth[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]B7[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'm greedy and I'm angry and I don't care who I cross.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]B7[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]B7[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]B7[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B7[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nI'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                                           [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nOf course I went to law school, and took a law degree[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]B7[/ch]                                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd counselled all my clients, to plead insanity.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThen worked in hair replacement, swindling the bald[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]B7[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhere very few are chosen, and fewer still are called.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                                   [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nThen on to Monte Carlo to play chemin de faire[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]B7[/ch]                                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI threw away the fortune, I made transplanting hair.[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI put my last few francs down on a prostitute[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]B7[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWho took me up to her room to perform the flag salute.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                      [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nWhereupon I stole her passport and her wig[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]B7[/ch]                                                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd headed for the airport and the midnight flight, you dig?[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]B7[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLooking through the want ads sipping Fosters in the shade.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                                      [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nI opened up an agency somewhere down the line[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B7[/ch]                                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTo hire aboriginals to work the opal mines.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut I attached their wages and took a whopping cut[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]B7[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd whisked away their workman's comp and pauperized the lot.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]B7[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]B7[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]B7[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B7[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nI'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                                        [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nI bought a first class ticket on Malaysian Air[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]B7[/ch]                                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd landed in Sri Lanka, none the worse for wear.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]B7[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'll see you in the next life, wake me up for meals![/tab]","plain_text":"NOTE: Capo 2 for recorded key. Warren used no capo for live performances (see Youtube).\n\n\n[Intro]\nE\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]","chords":["E","B7","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}