I was mindin' my own business down on Elum Street The sun was comin' up and the birds was sweet When a car come around the corner, long and and brown Pulls up to the curb beside me and rolls their down A man me a dollar and I asked him what's that for A pack of Luckies and a over at the corner store I peer the window there's 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 should've used Their patience was to the shortness of their fuse Bonnie's pretty little 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 Dallas Sun I told 'em made the papers front page and column one Ah, we don't no smart-assed kid actin' as our guide Now just run like you never 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 catch your eye The biggest haul of Fort Knox they're a'haulin back tonight And it up in an Armored Car at the crack of the mornin' light Bonnie me by the belt loop 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 just be on the side But don't even think about double crossin' Bonnie and Mr. Clyde
Within a week I'd 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 looked like an innocent country girl who had somehow gone Clyde once he was Robin Hood but now his greed was startin' to show Instead of the wealth around he was Wallerin' in the Dough And when he started slappin' Bonnie 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 if he wasn't so sluggin' drunk 'Bout the he raised his shootin' iron he passed out on his trunk Me and Bonnie our break, in Clyde's Caddilac 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 week the came, showed Clyde on an old divan Shot of holes, the both of them, which the paper then Identified 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 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 floatin' down Niagra Hill We made the maddest wettest bumpiest fallin' down that waterfall Like a crazy pair of doves who had never seen rain fall The Police lights were blinkin' at our motel room, But We never went back to hear the tale of Miss and Mr. Clyde