I was mindin' my own business down on Deep Street The sun was up and the birds was singin' sweet When a car come around the corner, long and lean and Pulls up to the curb beside me and rolls their down A man throws me a and I asked him what's that for A pack of Luckies and a Paper over at the store I peer into the window there's a man and a woman Holy Jumpin' Bolts of Lightnin' it's Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
I a joke about Lucky Strikes that I never should've used Their was proportional to the shortness of their fuse Bonnie's pretty little finger was twitchin' by her side And Clyde was cleanin' his with a foot long Bowie Knife I brung 'em back the Cigarettes and the Mornin' Sun I told 'em they made the papers front page and one Ah, we need no smart-assed kid actin' as our guide Now just run along like you never seen, Miss Bonnie and Mr.
Excuse me sir I says to him, but I you was a business guy I might have a little that just might catch your eye The biggest haul of Fort Knox Gold they're a'haulin tonight And it up in an Armored Car at the crack of the mornin' light Bonnie me by the belt loop and pulled me in the car And Clyde held a saw'd-off to my and lit me a big cigar If you're on the level then we might just be on the side But don't even think about crossin' Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
Within a week I'd been transformed a beggar to a wanted man The dreams I'd had of a glamorous life were now, oh so at hand kept makin' eyes at me, it was hard to look away She looked like an innocent country girl who had somehow astray Clyde once imagined he was Robin but now his greed was startin' to show Instead of spreading the wealth around he was in the Dough And when he started slappin' Bonnie around something off in me inside, I said, If you keep slappin' Bonnie around, I'm have your hide! Clyde!
would've shot me then and there if he wasn't so sluggin' drunk 'Bout the time he raised his iron he passed out on his trunk Me and Bonnie our break, in Clyde's Caddilac De Ville Bonnie was already on my lap as we flew thru We got in Niagra Falls, I got a job as a paper man a week the headlines came, showed Clyde on an old divan Shot full of holes, the both of them, which the paper Identified As the love who led him to his grave, Miss Bonnie and Mr.
We just couldn't believe we got away with a as big as that We were buying drinks and tossin' scraps to all the dogs and We rented us a barrel that at the Whiskey Still And decided to our Honeymoon floatin' down Niagra Hill We made the maddest wettest bumpiest love fallin' down waterfall Like a crazy pair of desert doves who had seen rain fall The Police were blinkin' at our motel room, outside But We never back to hear the tale of Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde