If you're looking for the best way to go
It's where the river bends down that dirty old road
I've seen a thousand walk and never come back
At the edge of the dusk the fading light on their backs

It's a bad town (ah, ah, ah, ah, ah)
Oh, it's a bad town (ah, ah, ah, ah, ah)

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah

You never leave
That's the thing that nobody knows
In bad town the only ones left are the ghosts

And many have asked, "Do you pay to get in?"
Or you pay to get in and you pray to get out

It's a bad town (ah, ah, ah, ah, ah)
Oh, it's a bad town (ah, ah, ah, ah, ah)

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah