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John Prine – Bad Boy (1986) | Track profile | Dork

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John Prine
German Afternoons
Bad Boy

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Bad Boy

Release date: 1986

From German Afternoons

Singer/Songwriter

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About This Track

"Bad Boy" is a track by John Prine, from the album German Afternoons, released 1986. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Bad Boy

I been a bad boy, I been long gone

I been out there, I never phone home

I never gave you not one little clue where I'd been

I've been a bad boy again

I got a way of fallin' in love

With angels that don't shove

You into thinkin' that you are committing a sin

I've been a bad boy again

I've been a bad boy again

Now I've been a bad boy again

Now all the trouble that I'm in

Makes me a bad boy again

I've been a bad boy again

Now I've been a bad boy again

And all the trouble that I'm in

Makes me a bad boy again

I must have walked around in a real fog

I was your best friend, now I'm a real dog

I never thought that now would ever catch up with then

I've been a bad boy again

I've been a bad boy, I sung a wrong song

I took a left turn, I stayed too long

As you were thinking that I wasn't just like all other men

I've been a bad boy again

I've been a bad boy again

Now I've been a bad boy again

And all the trouble that I'm in

Makes me a bad boy again

I've been a bad boy again

Now I've been a bad boy again

And all the trouble that I'm in

Makes me a bad boy again

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Track details

From German Afternoons

1986

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Album

German Afternoons

Release year

1986

1Lulu Walls
2:37
2Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
3:30
3Out of Love
3:17
4Sailin' Around
3:26
5If She Were You
3:35
6Linda Goes to Mars
3:06
7Let's Talk Dirty In Hawaiian
3:13
8I Just Want to Dance with You
3:29
9Love, Love, Love
3:00
10Bad Boy
3:28
11They'll Never Take Her Love from Me
3:08
12Paradise
3:29
—Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
3:28
—Bad Boy
—If She Were You
—Sailin' Around
—I Just Want to Dance with You
—Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
—Lulu Walls
—Out of Love
—Love, Love, Love
—Paradise (1986 version)
—Linda Goes to Mars
—They'll Never Take Her Love From Me

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Writer: John Prine
Producer: Jim Rooney, John Prine