I was mindin' my own business down on Deep Street The sun was comin' up and the was singin' sweet When a car come the corner, long and lean and brown Pulls up to the curb beside me and their window down A man throws me a dollar and I asked him what's for A pack of Luckies and a Paper over at the corner I into the window there's a man and a woman inside Holy Bolts of Lightnin' it's Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
I made a joke about Lucky Strikes that I never should've Their patience was proportional to the of their fuse Bonnie's pretty little finger was twitchin' by her side And Clyde was cleanin' his fingernails with a foot long Knife I brung 'em back the Cigarettes and the Mornin' Sun I told 'em they made the papers front page and one Ah, we don't need no smart-assed kid as our guide Now just run like you never seen, Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
me sir I says to him, but I thought you was a business guy I might have a proposition that just might catch your eye The biggest haul of Fort Knox Gold a'haulin back 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 held a saw'd-off to my head 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 transformed from a beggar to a wanted man The dreams I'd had of a life were now, oh so close at hand kept makin' eyes at me, it was hard to look away She looked like an country girl who had somehow gone astray Clyde once imagined he was Robin Hood but now his was startin' to show Instead of spreading the around he was Wallerin' in the Dough And when he started slappin' around something went off in me inside, I said, If you keep slappin' Bonnie around, I'm gonna your hide! Clyde!
Clyde would've me then and there if he wasn't so sluggin' drunk 'Bout the time he raised his shootin' he passed out on his trunk Me and made our break, in Clyde's Caddilac De Ville Bonnie was already on my lap as we flew Louisville We got married in Niagra Falls, I got a job as a man Within a week the headlines came, showed Clyde on an old Shot of holes, the both of them, which the paper then Identified As the love who led him to his grave, Miss and Mr. Clyde
We couldn't believe we got away with a scheme as big as that We were buying drinks and tossin' scraps to all the and cats We rented us a barrel that at the Whiskey Still And to spend our Honeymoon floatin' down Niagra Hill We made the maddest wettest bumpiest fallin' down that 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 went back to hear the tale of Miss Bonnie and Mr.