GEORGE THOROGOOD - BAD TO THE BONE

BAD TO THE BONE

GEORGE THOROGOOD

SONGWRITER: GEORGE THOROGOOD

CONTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: BAD TP THE BONE

LABEL: EMI AMERICANA

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1982

Bad to the Bone is a song by George Thorogood and the Destroyers released in 1982 on the album of the same name. While it was not widely popular during its initial release, its video made recurrent appearances on the nascent MTV, created a year before. Licensing for films, television, and commercials has since made the song more popular. Author Jim Beviglia argues that despite the song not making the pop charts, it "outstrips all other 80s songs in terms of the way it has essentially become cultural shorthand".

The song adapts the hook and lyrics of Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy".

On October 7, 2008, the song was released as downloadable content for the music video game series Rock Band. It also featured in Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock. The video game Rock 'n Roll Racing also uses it.

The song has also been used as a theme song for Mr. Bungle.

Talk show host Bill Cunningham uses the song as the opening intro to his afternoon talk show on WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, and on his Sunday night radio show. The song "E.V.I.L. B.O.Y.S." from the hit Disney show Phineas and Ferb sampled the base melody of the song to give it a blues sound.

Thorogood appeared in a UPS commercial, convincing NASCAR driver Dale Jarrett to race the brown delivery truck, and rewriting the lyrics as "Brown to the Bone", in 2002.

On the day I was born

The nurses all gathered 'round

And they gazed in wide wonder

At the joy they had found

The head nurse spoke up

And she said leave this one alone

She could tell "right away"

That I was bad to the bone

Bad to the bone (x2)

B-B-B-B-Bad (x3)

Bad to the bone

I broke a thousand hearts

Before I met you

I'll break a thousand more, baby

Before I am through

I wanna be yours, pretty baby

Yours and yours alone

I'm here to tell ya, honey

That I'm bad to the bone

Bad to the boné

B-B-B-B-Bad (x3)

Bad to the bone

I make a rich woman beg

I'll make a good woman steal

I'll make an old woman blush

And make a young woman squeal

I wanna be yours, pretty baby

Yours and yours alone

I'm here to tell ya, honey

That I'm bad to the bone

B-B-B-B-Bad (x3)

Bad to the boné

Now when I walk the streets

Kings and queens step aside

Every woman I meet

They all stay satisfied

I wanna tell ya, pretty baby

What I see I make my own

And I'm here to tell ya, honey

That I'm bad to the bone

Bad to the bone

B-B-B-B-Bad (x3)

Bad to the bone.