I'm honored, I'm flattered,
 This greeting really mattered.
 This welcome is grand
 But I'm really concerned.
 I like your attention
 But this I have to mention
 You're playing with fire
 And up to get burned!
 There's a girl in Tennessee
 Who's sorry she met up with me
 I can't go back to Tennessee,
 I'm a bad, bad man!
 There's a girl in Omaha,
 But I ran faster than her Pa,
 I can't go back to Omaha
 There's a girl in Wyoming,
 And they're combing Wyoming
 To find a man in white
 Who was out with her that night!
 There's a girl in Arkansas,
 The Sheriff is her brother-in-law,
 I can't go back to Arkansas,
 I'm a bad, bad man!
 I'm enlightened, but frightened.
 Though my int'rest you've heightened.
 It might turn out to be
 That too much, too much for me!
 So I'll go back to my tent,
 And someday when you're old and bent,
 Think of those you might have spent
 With a bad, bad man