Bad News - Eddy Arnold

Bad news travels like wild fire

Good news travels slow

They all call me Wildfire

'Cause everybody knows

That I’m bad news everywhere I go

Always a gettin' in the trouble, ha, ha, ha

And leavin' little girls who hate to see me go

I’ve picked peaches down in Georgia

Lumberjacked up in Maine

I’ve been hired and jailed

In every state you can name

Because I’m bad news travels like wild fire

Good news travels slow

They all call me Wildfire

'Cause everybody knows

That I’m bad news everywhere I go

Always a gettin' in the trouble, ha, ha, ha

And leavin' little girls who hate to see me go

From north to south from east to west

The story is the same

From one state to the other

I have to change my name

Because I’m bad news travels like wild fire

Good news travels slow

They all call me Wildfire

'Cause everybody knows

That I’m bad news everywhere I go

Always a gettin' in the trouble, ha, ha, ha

And leavin' 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

They had to let me go

Because I’m bad news travels like wild fire

Good news travels slow

They all call me Wildfire

'Cause everybody knows

That I’m bad news everywhere I go

Always a gettin' in the trouble, ha, ha, ha

And leavin' little girls who hate to see me go…