{"id":3182,"date":"2014-03-10T02:06:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2014-03-10T02:06:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:06:36","slug":"of-course-i-went-to-law-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3182","title":{"rendered":"Of Course I Went To Law School"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One thing these years is constant, enjoying Warren Zevon<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Bad Example<\/p>\n

I started as an alter boy, working at the church
\nLearning all my holy moves, doing some research
\nWhich led me to a cash box, labeled “Children’s Fund”
\nI’d leave the change, and tuck the bills inside my cummerbund<\/p>\n

I got a part-time job at my father’s carpet store
\nLaying tackless stripping, and housewives by the score
\nI loaded up their furniture, and took it to Spokane
\nAnd auctioned off every last naugahyde divan<\/p>\n

I’m very well aquainted with the seven deadly sins
\nI keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in
\nI’m proud to be a glutton, and I don’t have time for sloth
\nI’m greedy, and I’m angry, and I don’t care who I cross<\/p>\n

I’m Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt
\nI like to have a good time, and I don’t care who gets hurt
\nI’m Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me
\nI’ll live to be a hundred, and go down in infamy<\/p>\n

Of course I went to law school and took a law degree
\nAnd counseled all my clients to plead insanity
\nThen worked in hair replacement, swindling the bald
\nWhere very few are chosen, and fewer still are called<\/p>\n

Then on to Monte Carlo to play chemin de fer
\nI threw away the fortune I made transplanting hair
\nI put my last few francs down on a prostitute
\nWho took me up to her room to perform the flag salute<\/p>\n

Whereupon I stole her passport and her wig
\nAnd headed for the airport and the midnight flight, you dig?
\nAnd fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide
\nLooking through the want ads sipping Fosters in the shade<\/p>\n

I opened up an agency somewhere down the line
\nTo hire aboriginals to work the opal mines
\nBut I attached their wages and took a whopping cut
\nAnd whisked away their workman’s comp and pauperized the lot<\/p>\n

I’m Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt
\nI like to have a good time, and I don’t care who gets hurt
\nI’m Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me
\nI’ll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy<\/p>\n

I bought a first class ticket on Malaysian Air
\nAnd landed in Sri Lanka none the worse for wear
\nI’m thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals
\nI’ll see you in the next life, wake me up for meals.<\/p>\n

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