The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde were pretty-looking people

But I can tell you, people, they were the Devil's children

Bonnie and Clyde began their evil-doin'

One lazy afternoon down Savannah way

They robbed a store and high-tailed out of that town

Got clean away in a stolen car

And waited 'til the heat died down

Bonnie and Clyde advanced their reputation

And made the graduation into the banking business

"Reach for the sky!" sweet-talking Clyde would holler

As Bonnie loaded dollars in the dewlap bag

Now one brave man, he tried to take them alone

They left him lying in a pool of blood

And laughed about it all the way home

Bonnie and Clyde got to be public enemy number one

Running and hiding from every American lawman's gun

They used to laugh about dyin'

But deep inside them, they knew

That pretty soon they'd be lyin'

Beneath the ground together

Pushing up daisies to welcome the sun and the morning dew

Acting upon reliable information

A federal deputation laid a deadly ambush

When Bonnie and Clyde came walkin' in the sunshine

A half a dozen carbines opened up on them

Bonnie and Clyde

They lived a lot together

And finally, together

They died