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家园 邦妮和克莱德出名主要是因为邦妮

邦妮和克莱德出名主要是因为邦妮长得漂亮,而且是当时少见的“侠女”。当然克莱德也是俊男。俊男美女一起劫富(没有“济贫”)当然能够引起很多人的罗曼蒂克遐想。

而邦妮还是个才女。做了一首诗道:

The Story of Bonnie and Clyde

You’ve read the story of Jesse James

Of how he lived and died

If you’re still in need for something to read

Here’s the story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang,

I’m sure you all have read

how they rob and steal

And those who squeal are usually found dying or dead.

There’s lots of untruths to those write-ups

They’re not so ruthless as that

Their nature is raw, they hate all law

Stool pigeons, spotters, and rats.

They call them cold-blooded killers

They say they are heartless and mean

But I say this with pride, I once knew Clyde

When he was honest and upright and clean.

But the laws fooled around and taking him down

and locking him up in a cell

‘Till he said to me, “I’ll never be free

So I’ll meet a few of them in hell.”

The road was so dimly lighted

There were no highway signs to guide

But they made up their minds if all roads were blind

They wouldn’t give up ’till they died.

The road gets dimmer and dimmer

Sometimes you can hardly see

But it’s fight man to man, and do all you can

For they know they can never be free.

From heartbreak some people have suffered

From weariness some people have died

But all in all, our troubles are small

‘Till we get like Bonnie and Clyde.

If a policeman is killed in Dallas

And they have no clue or guide

If they can’t find a friend, just wipe the slate clean

And hang it on Bonnie and Clyde.

There’s two crimes committed in America

Not accredited to the Barrow Mob

They had no hand in the kidnap demand

Nor the Kansas City Depot job.

A newsboy once said to his buddy

“I wish old Clyde would get jumped

In these hard times we’s get a few dimes

If five or six cops would get bumped.”

“The police haven’t got the report yet

But Clyde called me up today

He said, “Don’t start any fights, we aren’t

working nights, we’re joining the NRA.”

From Irving to West Dallas viaduct

Is known as the Great Divide

Where the women are kin and men are men

And they won’t stool on Bonnie and Clyde.

If they try to act like citizens

And rent a nice little flat

About the third night they’re invited to fight

By a sub-gun’s rat-tat-tat.

They don’t think they’re tough or desperate

They know the law always wins

They’ve been shot at before, but they do not ignore

That death is the wages of sin.

Someday they’ll go down together

And they’ll bury them side by side

To few it’ll be grief, to the law a relief

But it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde.

结果一语成谶,他们真的“go down together”了。

另外,当时警察伏击邦妮和克莱德的过程完全是黑帮刺杀的模式。看见公路上一辆车过来了就乱枪齐发把两人打成了筛子。之前没有警告,没有拦截,就是单纯的开枪杀人。固然克莱德此前杀了不少人。但是警察像黑帮一样干活也是不对的。万一哪部车里不是邦妮和克莱德而是无辜者呢?另外一直有说法邦妮从来没真正杀过人或参与抢劫,这下不经审判也被刺杀了,自然引起很多人的同情。

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