I was mindin' my own business down on Deep Elum The sun was comin' up and the birds was singin' When a car come around the corner, and lean and brown Pulls up to the curb beside me and rolls their down A man throws me a dollar and I him what's that for A pack of and a Paper over at the corner store I peer into the window there's a man and a woman Holy Jumpin' Bolts of Lightnin' Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
I made a joke about Lucky Strikes that I should've used patience was proportional to the shortness of their fuse Bonnie's pretty little trigger finger was twitchin' by her And Clyde was cleanin' his with a foot long Bowie Knife I brung 'em back the Cigarettes and the Mornin' Sun I told 'em made the papers front page and column 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
Excuse me sir I says to him, but I you was a business guy I might have a little proposition that just might catch 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 grabbed me by the belt 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 be partners on the side But don't even think about crossin' Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
a week I'd been transformed from 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 gone Clyde once imagined he was Robin but now his greed was startin' to show Instead of the wealth around he was Wallerin' in the Dough And when he started slappin' around something went off in me inside, I said, If you keep Bonnie around, I'm gonna have your hide! Clyde!
Clyde would've shot me and there if he wasn't so sluggin' drunk 'Bout the time he raised his iron 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 thru Louisville We got married in Niagra Falls, I got a job as a man Within a week the headlines came, 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 away with a scheme as big as We were drinks and tossin' scraps to all the dogs and cats We rented us a that night 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 never seen rain The Police were blinkin' at our motel room, outside But We never went back to hear the tale of Bonnie and Mr. Clyde