Bad News lyrics and chords

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Bad News
Recorded by Boxcar Willie
Written by John D. Loudermilk

C
Well bad news travels like wild fire

Good news travels slow
                                            C7
And they call me old wild fire everywhere I go

         F                  C
Lord I'm bad news everybody knows
G7
Always gettin' into trouble
    F
And leaving little girls 
                    C
That hate to see me go

 
Well I've picked peaches down in Georgia

I lumber jacked up in Maine

And I've been hired and fired and jailed
                       C7
In every state you can name
 
Repeat #2 Cause I'm ...


Well from north to south

From east to west the story is the same

From one state to the other 
                   C7
I had to change my name

Repeat #2 


Well they tried to hang me down in Oakland

They did in San Francisco

But I wouldn't choke and I broke their rope
                       C7
And they had to let me go

Repeat #2 

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