Chords for Flatt & Scruggs - The Story Of Bonnie & Clyde

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_ _ The story [Am] of Bonnie and [Gm] Clyde is [Dm] a [G] story the old [C] folks knew.
_ The story _ [Fm] [Am] of Bonnie and Clyde, [F] if you listen [G] my [C] fairy few.
_ _ _ Five Barrel wouldn't work so he chopped off his toe
[F] In a Huntsville prison where he got his parole. _
[C] Then he traveled to Dallas where he found him a friend
[F] It was Miss Bonnie Parker [G] and that's where [C] it all began.
_ _ _ They found them a driver for their getaway four
[F] They were soon well known through a dozen states or more.
_ [C] Then Clyde's brother Buck and his pretty wife [F] Blanche
Joined them and that [G] made up the [C] famous Barrel Gang.
_ _ _ Bonnie Parker was a poet and Blanche Barrel was a cook
[F] Clyde was a fast drawer and Buck a smarter cook.
_ [C] Their driver was a wonderful mechanic so they say
[F] And soon they were all famous in [G] their all [C] peculiar way. _
_ _ _ [G] _ [C] The stories were so many that you couldn't read them all
[F] The legend grew and grew about the Barrels and the Laws.
[C] The Barrel Gang swept through the land and many were their friends
[F] But pretty soon they [G] realized the Law was [C] closing _ in.
_ _ Out near Dexter Isle way they had a change of [F] law
In a gun fight with police Clyde lost his brother Buck
_ [C] But Clyde and Bonnie got away the second time that year
[F] Bonnie wrote her poems [G] and she knew the [C] end was near. _ _
_ _ At 915 Old May the 23rd and _ 34th
[F] Their streets Porta-Louisiana death was knocking at the door
_ [C] Clyde Barrel and Miss Bonnie Parker came to meet her friend
[F] And realized too late that [G] they had come to [C] meet their end.
_ _ The story _ [Am]
of Bonnie and [F] Clyde
They [G] died as they lived [C] by the gun
The story _ [Am]
of Bonnie and Clyde
[F] Their names [G] are remembered [C] as one. _ _ _ _
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