Bad Guys

Words and music copyright ©1984 by Howard Ashby Kranz

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1. Who’s that out there prowling round, them bad guys! making rude, unwholesome sounds, them bad guys!

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telling jokes about the blind, them bad guys! drinking the communion wine, them bad guys!

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laughing loud and starting fights, leaving on the kitchen lights,

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breaking vases, slamming doors, starting all those pre-emptive wars,

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it must be those bad guys, it must be those bad guys, it must be those , woe, terrible bad guys.

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2. Wicked evil mean & nasty bad guys, they work too slow they drive too fast, these bad guys

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They interrupt the shopping crowds, them bad guys, to protest where it’s not allowed, them bad guys

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their lives are lived in total greed, they want more than they really need,

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leaving church before it’s done, fornicating just for fun,

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it must be those bad guys, it must be those bad guys, it must be those , woe, terrible bad guys.

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Bridge: Take your job and wreck the budget, bad guys; staple, mutilate and smudge it, bad guys

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They want 15 bucks for flipping burgers, bad guys; why they use private email servers, bad guys,

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bad, bad, bad, bad guys.

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Bridge 2: They take just what they can get, those bad guys; how their suffering parents fret, those bad guys

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Identity theft and welfare fraud, those bad guys, dancing in the sight of God, those bad guys

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bad, bad, bad, bad guys.

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3. We all know just who they are, them bad guys! they enter through the exit door, them bad guys!

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set themselves up as the judge, them bad guys; they feel no guilt! or else too much, them bad guys.

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leaving off the toothpaste lid, leaving everything askew

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what if everybody did just what they wanted to?

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then we’d all be bad guys, then we’d all be bad guys, then we’d all be woe, terrible bad guys.