I was mindin' my own business on Deep Elum Street The sun was comin' up and the birds was singin' When a car come the corner, long and lean and brown Pulls up to the curb beside me and their window down A man me a dollar and I asked him what's that for A pack of and a Paper over at the corner store I into the window there's a man and a woman inside Holy Jumpin' of Lightnin' it's Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
I made a joke about Strikes that I never should've used patience was proportional to the shortness of their fuse Bonnie's pretty trigger finger was twitchin' by her side And Clyde was cleanin' his fingernails with a long Bowie Knife I brung 'em the Cigarettes and the Dallas Mornin' Sun I told 'em they made the papers page and column one Ah, we don't need no smart-assed kid actin' as our Now just run along like you seen, Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
Excuse me sir I says to him, but I thought you was a guy I might have a little proposition that just might your eye The biggest haul of Fort Knox Gold they're a'haulin back And loadin' it up in an Car at the crack of the mornin' light Bonnie grabbed me by the 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 then we might just be partners on the side But don't even think about double crossin' Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
Within a week I'd been transformed from a beggar to a man The I'd had of a glamorous life were now, oh so close at hand Bonnie makin' eyes at me, it was hard to look away She looked like an innocent country girl who had gone astray once imagined he was Robin Hood but now his greed was startin' to show Instead of spreading the wealth he was Wallerin' in the Dough And when he slappin' Bonnie around something went off in me inside, I said, If you keep slappin' Bonnie around, I'm gonna your hide! Clyde!
Clyde would've shot me then and there if he so sluggin' drunk the time he raised his shootin' iron he passed out on his trunk Me and Bonnie made our break, in Clyde's Caddilac De Bonnie was already on my lap as we thru Louisville We got in Niagra Falls, I got a job as a paper man Within a week the came, showed Clyde on an old divan Shot full of holes, the both of them, which the paper then As the love who led him to his grave, Miss Bonnie and Mr.
We just couldn't believe we got with a scheme as big as that We were drinks and tossin' scraps to all the dogs and cats We us a barrel that night at the Whiskey Still And decided to our Honeymoon floatin' down Niagra Hill We made the maddest wettest bumpiest love fallin' down that Like a crazy pair of desert doves who had never seen rain The Police lights were at our motel room, outside But We never back to hear the tale of Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde