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Warren Zevon : Misc

  1. Boom Boom Mancini
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  2. Dirty Life And Times
  3. Jeannie Needs A Shooter
  4. Mr Bad Example
  5. Mutineer
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  6. Splendid Isolation
  7. Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead

Boom Boom Mancini

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Played by Bob Dylan during the fall tour 2002
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D9 xx0210 or x54530
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Hurry home early, hurry on home
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Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon Hurry home early hurry on home Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
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From Youngstown, Ohio, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
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A lightweight contender, like father like son He fought for the title with Frias in Vegas And he put him away in round number one Hurry home early hurry on home Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon When Alexis Arguello gave Boom Boom a beating Seven weeks later he was back in the ring Some have the speed and the right combinations If you can't take the punches, it don't mean a thing Hurry home early hurry on home Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
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When they asked him who was responsible
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For the death of Du Koo Kim
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He said, "Some one should have stopped the fight
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And told me it was him" They made hypocrite judgements after the fact But the name of the game is be hit and hit back Hurry home early hurry on home Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon Hurry home early hurry on home Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon

Dirty Life And Times

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Some days I feel like my shadow's casting me
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Some days the sun don't shine
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Sometimes I wonder what tomorrow's gonna bring
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When I think about my dirty life and times
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One day I came to a fork in the road
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Folks, I just couldn't go where I was told
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Now they'll hunt me down and hang me for my crimes
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If I tell about my dirty life and times |
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| I had someone 'til she went out for a stroll Should have run after her It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold When you're living in a four-letter world And if she won't love me then her sister will She's from Say-one-thing-and-mean-another-s-ville And she can't seem to make up her mind When she hears about my dirty life and times
Guitar solo over verse chords
Some days I feel like my shadow's casting me Some days the sun don't shine (don't shine) Sometimes I wonder why I'm still running free All up and down the line Gets a little lonely, folks, you know what I mean I'm looking for a woman with low self-esteem To lay me out and ease my worried mind While I'm winding down my dirty life and times Who'll lay me out and ease my worried mind While I'm winding down my dirty life and times |
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Jeannie Needs A Shooter

Co-written with Bruce Springsteen
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I was born down by the river where the dirty water flows
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And the cold wind cut through me, it cut right through my clothes
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And the anger and the yearning, like fever in my veins
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Set the fire burning She came down from Knightstown with her hands hard from the line From the first time I laid eyes on her I know that she'd be mine Her father was a lawman, he swore he'd shoot me dead 'Cause he knew I wanted Jeannie and I'd have her like I said
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Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter like me
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Jeannie needs a shooter
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Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter on her side
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Jeannie needs a shooter
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We met down by the river on the final day in May And when I leaned down to kiss her, she did not turn away I drew out all my money and together we did vow To meet that very evening, and get away somehow Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter like me Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter on her side Jeannie needs a shooter The night was cold and rainy down by the borderline I was riding hard to meet her when a shot rang out behind As I lay there in the darkness with a pistol by my side Jeannie and her father rode off into the night Jeannie needs a shooter

Mr Bad Example

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I started as an altar boy working in the church
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Learning all my holy moves and doing some research
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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 cummerbund 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
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I'm Mr Bad Example, intruder in the dirt
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I like to have a good time and I don't care who gets hurt
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I'm Mr Bad Example, take a look at me
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I'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy 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 I'm Mr Bad Example, intruder in the dirt I like to have a good time and I don't care who gets hurt I'm Mr Bad Example, take a look at me I'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy 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!

Mutineer

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Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
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Hoist the mainsail, here I come
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Ain't no room on board for the insincere
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You're my witness, I'm your mutineer I was born to rock the boat Some may sink but we will float Grab your coat, let's get out of here You're my witness, I'm your mutineer
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Long ago we laughed at shadows
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Lightning flashed and thunder followed us
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It could never find us here
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You're my witness, I'm your mutineer
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Long ago we laughed at shadows Lightning flashed and thunder followed us It could never find us here You're my witness, I'm your mutineer I was born to rock the boat Some may sink but we will float Grab your coat, let's get out of here You're my witness, I'm your mutineer You're my witness, I'm your mutineer
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I'm your mutineer

Splendid Isolation

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I wanna live all alone in the desert I wanna be like Georgia O'Keefe I wanna live on the Upper East Side And never go down in the street
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Splendid Isolation
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I don't need no one
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Splendid Isolation Michael Jackson in Disneyland Don't have to share it with nobody else Lock the gates, Goofy take my hand And lead me through the world of Self Splendid Isolation I don't need no one Splendid Isolation
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Don't want to wake up with no one beside me Don't want to take up with nobody new Don't want nobody coming by without calling first
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Don't want nothin' to do with you
Solo over verse chords
I'm putting tin-foil up on the windows I'm laying down in the dark to dream I don't want to see their faces I don't want to hear them scream Splendid Isolation I don't need no one Splendid Isolation Splendid Isolation I don't need no one Splendid Isolation
Solo over verse chords and fade out

Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead

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I was working on a steak the other day And I saw Waddy in the Rattlesnake Cafe Dressed in black, tossing back a shot of rye Finding things to do in Denver when you die
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) You won't need a cab to find a priest
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) Maybe you should find a place to stay
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And you just roll around Denver all day
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LeRoy says there's something you should know Not everybody has a place to go And home is just a place to hang your head And dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead You won't need a cab to find a priest Maybe you should find a place to stay Some place where they never change the sheets And you just roll around Denver all day And you just roll around Denver all day