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Anyone know what the Lee Scratch Perry dub song is that starts with the lyrics "Don't be like Bonnie and Clyde if you want to stay alive"?

This is a bit irrelevent but can someone identify which Dillinger (I think its Dillinger at least) that makes reference to Bonny and clyde as well. Thanks in advance.

Bonnie & Clyde are also mentioned in Desmond Dekker & the Aces Israelites.

j j wrote:Bonnie & Clyde are also mentioned in Desmond Dekker & the Aces Israelites.

The film "Bonnie & Clyde" (1967) was very popular film, and Jamaica is a country that loves action movies, especially those with outlaws. That would explain why two American gangsters would find themselves in Jamaican songs some thirty years after they were shot down.

lone ranger´s wicked a go run(cuss cuss) also features a reference to bonny and clyde:

"say don´t go abroad and don´t go disgrace your wife ca you will end up like a bonny and clyde"

Natty- All for one

Is this the one you were looking for?

I think it's Dread Ina Jamdong from Jah Lion's Colombian Colly. Lee Perry's fingers were all over this.

singulararse wrote:I think it's Dread Ina Jamdong from Jah Lion's Colombian Colly. Lee Perry's fingers were all over this.

yeah i was gonna say, i think this is definitely the tune that the OP is looking for. a great LP that is, i listen to it a lot.

Philip 'Papa' Levi's Bonnie and Clyde was a big tune back in the early 80s. Released just after his big hit Mi God Mi King.

Reference also in Big Joe - Home Guard

"Marcus Garvey drive side to Bunny and Clyde"

If anyone can make out lyrics before and after that quote much appreciated.