A true story. I wish it wasn't. Features the incomparable Lenny Amaral on Pedal Steel.

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What's the difference between Boris Gudenov and Boris Badenov? This dilemma got me thinking about some awful mistakes I'd made in my first marriage. The best thing that came of it was this song.

BAD ENOUGH (To be Good Enough for Me)

Woman, you're bad enough to be good enough for me.
Folks say I'm crazy to talk such nonsense and that could be.
I say you're bad enough to be good enough for me
'Cause bad women are my favorite kind, you see.

I had a woman; she was good to me at first.
As time went on she got a hunger and I got a thirst.
I took to drinkin' - she took to men with the rent in her purse.
And that's the way my best love became the worst.

Now, Woman, you know what it's like; you've got a good man.
And I know you have your good times at playin' your hand.
But when a good man finds he's been somebody's fool
It can make him give up playin' by the rules.

CHORUS

Well, I never claimed to be no perfect angel.
But I tried to keep from strayin' out of line (well, most of the time)
And when I saw what kind of men got my baby's lovin'
Right then I knew what kind of woman was gettin' mine.

CHORUS