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The Stillwater Hobos - The Ballad Of Bonnie Clyde Chords

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The Ballad Of Bonnie Clyde Chords

(ver. 1)
The Stillwater Hobos
          A
 Well you heard the ballad of Jesse James how he robbed that Glendale train 
                                                 E
 But that don't compare to the do?or?dare of the famous Barrow Gang 
         A                      A7             D                 
 They're crooks and killers the papers say and society drags 'em down 
           A                                         E                    A
 Calls 'em low?life scum no better than mud and they run 'em right out of town. 


          A
 And I said hey pretty honey of mine ride along with me 
                                                 
 We'll shoot the night just to stay a?right 
         E
 Till we climb up the hanging tree 
             A                         A7
 So when you leave your house shut the garden gate 
           D                             
 Tell your mother and your father not to stay up late 
             A                           E                  A
 We're gonna fight for our freedom right down to the day we die. 


             A
 Well it was gas?filling stations convenience stores to those home?spun county banks 
                                               E
 We took 'em all both great and small steering clear of the cell block tanks 
         A                       A7                D                       
 You can feel the freedom of the open road blowing smoke rings out of your hair 
            A                                                    E                         A
 But you'll never find a feeling that's more alive than throwing lead through the gravelly air. 


            A
 And I said hey pretty honey of mine what are you gonna do 
                               
'Cause there's a gas?can man with a rifle in his hand 
       E
 Gonna blow you to Waterloo 
            A                       A7
 She said I told you twice and I'll say it again 
           D                      
 I'm not a cooped?up chicken or a huckleberry hen. 
       A                          E                  A
 Gonna fight for my freedom right down to the day we die. 

        A
 It was roundabout the spring of '34 we were skirting state border lines 
                                                     E
 Oklahoma, Mississippi, Creole Country, Kansas City, Dallas, and the Great Divide 
            A                         A7                     D                      
 But in the gun?light's gleam I could see in her eyes as she stood in the barn door?way 
        A                                         E                    A
 Saying Clyde I know it's a coal?black road gonna send you to Judgment Day. 


            A
 And I said hey pretty honey of mine tell me and tell me true
 
 If you could take it all back would you walk the right track 
      E 
 And obey them boys in blue 
            A                 A7
 She said I walk a road paved with regret 
         D                           
 But the Law don't forgive and it'll never forget 
             A                           E                  A
 We're gonna fight for our freedom right down to the day we die. 


   A             
 I know we're not that smart or desperate love the law it always wins 
                                                 E
 We've been shot before but we can't ignore that death is the wages of sin 
      A                     A7                           D               
 Some day we'll ride to the end of the trail and they'll bury us side by side 
          A                                                  E                    A
 For your ma there'll be grief, for the law relief, but it's death for Bonnie and Clyde. 


            A        
 And I said hey pretty honey of mine life can lend you a bitter taste 
                                                               E 
 When the whole world's view of the gutter and you has got you feeling like a human waste 
       A                        A7
 We're not the people that they think see 
           D
 And we've payed our debts to society. 
             A                           E                  A
(We're gonna fight for our freedom right down to the day we die.  x3)
            
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