Bad News

Bad news travels like wildfire

Good news travels slow

They call me old wildfire

'Cause everybody knows

That I'm bad news

Everywhere I go

Always getting into trouble

And leaving little girls who hate to see me go



I picked peaches down in Georgia

Lumber jacked up in Maine

I've been hired and fired and jailed

In every state you can name

'Cause I'm bad news

Everywhere I go

Always getting into trouble

And leaving little girls who hate to see me go



From north to south

From east to west

The stories is the same

From one state to the other

I have to change my name

'Cause I'm bad news

Everywhere I go

Always getting into trouble

And leaving little girls who hate to see me go



Now they tried to hang me down in Oakland

And they did in San Frisco

But I wouldn't choke

And I broke their rope

And they had to let me go

'Cause I'm bad news

Everywhere I go

Always getting into trouble

And leaving little girls who hate to see me go



Bad news

Oh talkin' bad news

Bad news

Talkin' about bad news