Bad News Chords by Johnny Jenkins

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_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Cm] _ [C] All right.
_ [Cm] Bad [C] news travel like Wi [Cm]-Fi.
[C] Good news travel slow.
That's why they call me Wi [Gm]-Fi.
[C] Everybody knows [F] that I'm bad news. _ _ _ _
Everywhere [C] I go.
_ [Cm] [C] Oh lord. _
And [G] I'm always getting into trouble.
[Bb] [G] And leave a little girl to aid to see me go.
Oh yeah.
_ [Cm] Oh yeah.
_ [C] _ _ Lord.
[Cm] All right. _
Here we go.
[C] Well I've picked peaches out in Georgia.
I've lumberjacked up in Maine.
I've been high, smart and talented.
[Gm] [C] And every state you can [F] name.
Cause I'm bad news.
Lord. _
Everywhere I [C] go.
_ [Gm] Where [C] I go people. _
_ [G] I'm always getting into trouble.
[Dm] And leaving [F] little girl to aid to see me go.
[G] Yeah, yeah, yeah, [Cm] yeah.
Oh lord. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [C] _
_ _ North or south or east or west.
The story is the same.
But one state to another.
[Cm] [C] I had to change my name.
[F] Cause I'm bad news.
Lord. _ _
Everywhere [C] I go.
_ [Cm] Oh it's [C] the truth. _
And [G] I'm always getting into trouble.
[Dm] And leaving [Gm] little girl to aid to see me go.
[C] _ [G] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[C] Oh lord.
_ [Cm] _ _
Oh yeah.
They [C] tried to hang me in Oakland.
[Eb] [C] And they did in San Francisco.
I wouldn't have talked.
I [Eb] broke the rope.
[C] I thought they had to let me go.
[F] Cause I'm bad news.
Lord. _ _ _
Everywhere [C] I go.
_ [Cm] Everywhere I go. _
_ [G] I'm always getting into trouble.
[Dm] [F] And leaving little [G] girl to aid to see me go.
Yeah. Yeah. Mm _ [Eb] hmm. _
Oh.
[C] _ _ [Cm] Oh I must.
[C] Oh I must.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I broke the rope.
[Gm] [C] I tell you I broke the rope.
Lord.
And that it ain't no joke to tell you I broke the rope.
[Cm] They couldn't get my soul.
Lord.
They couldn't get my soul.
_ They couldn't get my soul.
They couldn't get my soul.
They couldn't get my soul.
I [D] broke the rope.
[Cm] _ _
Lord.
They don't hold [C] me.
Mm [Gm] [C] hmm. _
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_ _ _ _ Mm hmm. _
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_ _ _ _ _ Mm hmm. _
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