Standard (EADGBE)

Somebody had to set a bad example

Teach all the prime and propers

 what not to do

 Nobody round here wants to ramble

 What the hell that was I's born to do

Those swanky big brick houses don't amuse me

I live in a trailer,

 but I drive a Cadillac

 I ain't never tried to impress nobody

 Cause my honk if you horn sticker on the back?

Somebody had to set a bad example

Teach all the prime and propers

 what not to do

 Nobody round here wants to ramble

 What the hell that was I's born to do

All the girls that I grew up with went to college

 Their rich daddies bought them a degree

 But, I'm a third generation bartender

Yeah and I like livin' from a tip jar,

 from week to week

Somebody had to set a bad example

Teach all the prime and propers

 what not to do

 Nobody round here wants to ramble

 What the hell that was I's born to do

(X2)

 I said, what the hell that was I's born to do