Misc Originals – David Hollinger - The Ballad Of Bonnie And Bubba (Guitar)

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In A Small Georgia town full of peanut crops

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Downtown fountains and crooked cops

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Bonnie was a teenage runaway

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Bubba was an ex-con looking to play

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Everyone knew they were doomed from the start

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But it didn’t matter cause

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Bonnie stole the convicts heart

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He’d work an odd job for a week or two

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Then he’d run off with lord knows who

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He’d come back around when the money was spent

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And Bonnie took him back and that’s just the way life

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went.

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Well Bonnie got sick one Sunday morning

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He’d left her all alone again without warning

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She’d pace the floor then she’d lose her lunch

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Bonnie called the doctor and he said he had a

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hunch

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Well there’s gonna be another little mouth to feed

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Then 9 months later out comes me

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Daddy stayed sober for the whole first day

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Then momma said Bubba, boy you got to change your

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ways

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Well daddy got a job at the old sawmill

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He never got rich but he paid the bills

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Momma went to work waiting tables at night

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It was just me and daddy till the early morning

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light

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He’d pick me a song on a worn out Gibson

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I’d clap my hands and sing along with him

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He’d tuck me in with a mountain lullaby

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I drifted off with convicts gleam in my

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eye

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Well daddy got the cancer back in 63

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He did all he could for my momma and me

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And I played that Gibson till my fingers bled

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And every song he sang I can still hear in my

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head.

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Well momma went to heaven in 68

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Daddy always said he’d meet her at the gate

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everyone knew they were doomed from the start

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But it didn’t matter cause momma stole a convicts

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heart.

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No it didn’t matter cause momma stole a convicts

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heart.