Bad News chords by Boxcar Willie

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



NC
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



NC
Cause I'm...


          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



NC
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



         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



NC
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



         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