The Lorax - How Bad Can I Be by Misc Cartoons
Key: EE | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


[ONCE-LER]
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be? I'm just doing what comes naturally--
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be? I'm just following my destiny
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be? I'm just doing what comes naturally
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be?
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How bad can I possibly be?
[ONCE-LER & (Chorus)]
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Well, there's a principle of nature (principle of nature)
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That almost every creature knows
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Called survival of the fittest (survival of the fittest)
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And check it, this is how it goes:
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The animal that eats gotta scratch, and fight, and claw, and bite, and punch!
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And the animal that doesn't, well the animal that doesn't
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Winds up someone else's lu-lu-lu-lu-lunch (munch, munch, munch, munch, munch)
I'm just sayin'!
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be? I'm just doing what comes naturally--
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be? I'm just following my destiny
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be? I'm just doing what comes naturally
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be?
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How bad can I possibly be?
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There's a principle in business (principle in business)
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That everybody knows is sound
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It says the people with the money (people with the money)
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Make this ever-loving world go 'round;
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So I'm biggering my company, I'm biggering my factory, I'm biggering my corporate sign!
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Everybody out there, you take care of yours
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And me? I'll take care. Of
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Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine! (Shake that bottom line!)
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Let me hear you say 'smogulous smoke'! (smogulous smoke!)
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Schloppity schlop! (schloppity schlop!)
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Complain all you want, it's never ever, ever, ever gonna stop--
Come on how bad can I possibly be?
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be? I'm just building the economy
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be? Just look at me pettin' this puppy!
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be? A portion of proceeds goes to charity.
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How ba-a-a-ad can I be? How bad can I possibly be? Let's see:
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(How ba-a-a-ad can I be?) All the customers are buying!
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(How ba-a-a-ad can I be?) And the money's multiplying!
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(How ba-a-a-ad can I be?) And the PR people are lying!
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(How ba-a-a-ad can I be?) And the lawyers are denying!
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(How ba-a-a-ad can I be?) Who cares if a few trees are dying?
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(How ba-a-a-ad can I be?) This is all so gratifying!
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How bad...
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How bad can this possibly be!?