(John D. Loudermilk)      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...