THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE - 24/01/1968 1 week at #1 - 13 weeks on chart
Bonnie and Clyde were pretty lookin' 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 outa that town Got clean away in a stolen car And waited till 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 lyin' 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 'em 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 fed'ral deputation laid a deadly ambush When Bonnie and Clyde came walking 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