I was my own business down on Deep Elum Street The sun was comin' up and the was singin' sweet When a car come around the corner, long and and brown Pulls up to the curb beside me and rolls their window 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 a man and a woman inside Jumpin' Bolts of Lightnin' it's Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
I made a joke about Lucky Strikes that I should've used Their patience was proportional to the shortness of fuse Bonnie's pretty little trigger 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 page and column one Ah, we need no smart-assed kid actin' as our guide Now run along like you never seen, Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
Excuse me sir I to him, but I thought you was a business guy I might have a little proposition that might catch your eye The biggest haul of Fort Knox they're a'haulin back tonight And loadin' it up in an Car at the crack of the mornin' light Bonnie grabbed me by the belt and pulled me in the car And Clyde held a to my head and lit me a big cigar If you're on the level then we might be partners on the side But don't think about double crossin' Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
Within a I'd been transformed from a beggar to a wanted man The dreams I'd had of a glamorous were now, oh so close at hand Bonnie kept makin' at me, it was hard to look away She like an innocent country girl who had somehow gone astray Clyde once imagined he was Hood but now his greed was startin' to show Instead of spreading the around he was Wallerin' in the Dough And when he started Bonnie around something went off in me inside, I said, If you keep slappin' Bonnie around, I'm gonna have hide! Clyde!
Clyde would've shot me then and there if he wasn't so sluggin' the time he raised his shootin' iron he passed out on his trunk Me and made our break, in Clyde's Caddilac De Ville Bonnie was on my lap as we flew thru Louisville We got in Niagra Falls, I got a job as a paper man Within a the headlines came, showed Clyde on an old divan Shot full of holes, the both of them, which the paper then As the who led him to his grave, Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
We just couldn't believe we got away with a as big as that We buying drinks and tossin' scraps to all the dogs and cats We rented us a barrel that night at the Whiskey And to spend our Honeymoon floatin' down Niagra Hill We made the maddest wettest bumpiest love down that waterfall Like a crazy pair of doves who had never seen rain fall The Police lights were blinkin' at our room, outside But We went back to hear the tale of Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde