A little good newsanne murraywritten by charles black, rory bourke, and thomas roccopeaked at # 74 on the pop chart in 1983 while hitting #1 on the country charti rolled out this morningkids had the mornin' news show onbryant gumbel was talkin' 'bout the fighting in lebanonsome senator was squawkin' 'bout the bad economyit's gonna get worse you see, we need a change in policythere's a local paper rolled up in a rubber bandone more sad story's one more than i can standjust once how i'd like to see the headline say"not much to print today, can't find nothin' bad to say", because nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town nobody od'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain we sure could use a little good news todayi'll come home this evenin'i'll bet that the news will be the samesomebody takes a hostage, somebody steals a planehow i wanna hear the anchor man talk about a county fairand how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to carewhoa, tell me nobody was assassinated in the whole third world today and in the streets of ireland, all the children had to do was play and everybody loves everybody in the good old usa we sure could use a little good news today nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town nobody od'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down fade nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain we sure could use a little good news today