I was mindin' my own business down on Deep Elum The sun was comin' up and the birds was singin' When a car around the corner, long and lean and brown up to the curb beside me and rolls their window down A man me a dollar 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 Holy Jumpin' Bolts of Lightnin' it's Miss and Mr. Clyde
I made a joke about Lucky Strikes that I never used Their patience was proportional to the shortness of their Bonnie's pretty little trigger finger was twitchin' by her And Clyde was cleanin' his fingernails with a foot long Knife I brung 'em back the and the Dallas Mornin' Sun I told 'em they made the papers page and column one Ah, we don't no smart-assed kid actin' as our guide Now just run along like you seen, Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
me sir I says to him, but I thought you was a business guy I might a little proposition that just might catch your eye The biggest haul of Fort Knox Gold a'haulin back tonight And loadin' it up in an Armored Car at the crack of the light Bonnie grabbed me by the belt loop and me in the car And Clyde held a to my head 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' Miss Bonnie and Mr.
Within a I'd been transformed from a beggar to a wanted man The dreams I'd had of a glamorous life were now, oh so close at Bonnie kept makin' eyes at me, it was hard to look She looked 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 the wealth around 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 have hide! Clyde!
would've shot me then and there if he wasn't so sluggin' drunk 'Bout the time he raised his iron he passed out on his trunk Me and Bonnie made our break, in Clyde's Caddilac De was already on my lap as we flew thru Louisville We got married in Falls, I got a job as a paper man Within a week the headlines came, showed on an old divan Shot full of holes, the both of them, the paper then Identified As the love who led him to his grave, Miss and Mr. Clyde
We just couldn't believe we got away with a as big as that We were buying and tossin' scraps to all the dogs and cats We rented us a barrel that night at the Still And decided to spend our Honeymoon floatin' down Hill We made the maddest wettest bumpiest love fallin' that waterfall Like a crazy pair of doves who had never seen rain fall The Police lights blinkin' at our motel room, outside But We never went back to hear the tale of Miss Bonnie and Mr.