I was mindin' my own business down on Deep Street The sun was comin' up and the was singin' sweet When a car come around the corner, and lean and brown up to the curb beside me and rolls 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 store I peer into the window there's a man and a inside Holy Jumpin' of Lightnin' it's Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
I made a joke about Lucky Strikes that I never 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 foot 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 don't need no smart-assed kid actin' as our Now run along 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 proposition that just might catch your eye The biggest of Fort Knox Gold they're a'haulin back tonight And loadin' it up in an Armored Car at the crack of the mornin' Bonnie grabbed me by the loop and pulled me in the car And Clyde a saw'd-off to my head and lit me a big cigar If you're on the level we might just be partners on the side But don't even think about double crossin' Miss and Mr. Clyde
Within a I'd been transformed from a beggar to a wanted man The I'd had of a glamorous life were now, oh so close at hand Bonnie kept makin' eyes at me, it was to look away She looked like an innocent girl who had somehow gone astray once imagined he was Robin Hood but now his greed was startin' to show Instead of spreading the wealth around he was in the Dough And he started slappin' Bonnie 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 then and there if he wasn't so drunk 'Bout the time he raised his shootin' iron he out on his trunk Me and Bonnie made our break, in Clyde's 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 the headlines came, showed Clyde on an old divan full of holes, the both of them, which the paper then Identified As the who led him to his grave, Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
We just couldn't believe we got with a scheme as big as that We were buying drinks and 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 waterfall Like a crazy pair of desert doves who had never rain fall The Police lights were blinkin' at our room, outside But We never back to hear the tale of Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde