Bonnie Elizabeth Parker Poems

Bonnie Parker wrote this poem, by Mary E. Harris, from memory with some cute substitutions, into her First National Bank Of Burkburnett Texas bank book, as the tenth of ten poems, during her stay in the Kaufman County Jail in April May and June 1932.


If you listen to all
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BONNIE'S OWN POEM:


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BONNIE'S OWN POEM

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Dull the prison walls were gleaming
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BONNIE'S OWN POEM

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No one must know that I'm lonely
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BONNIE'S OWN POEM

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You have heard of big ''conventions''
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Just like the ramblin' roses
Round the porch in summer do
Tho all the world forget you
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BONNIE'S OWN POEM

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Yeah, she looks old and bent
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This is the version of this popular traditional poem by an unknown author, written in the late 19th century, set around the San Francisco intersection of Kearney and Pine, close to Maiden Lane and the Chinatown opium dens, as written from memory by Bonnie Parker, into her bank book from The First National Bank Of Burkburnett Texas with nine other poems, while she was in the Kaufman County Jail in 1932.
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Bonnie Parker wrote this folk poem, credited to A. L. Kirby late 19th century, from memory with some substitutions, into her bank book from The First National Bank Of Burkburnett Texas, along with 9 other poems, during her stay in the Kaufman County Jail in 1932.

Bonnie changed the original line of ''The Engineer with his oil and waste'' to her substitution of ''The Engineer with his coal and oil'', probably because she did not understand the meaning of ''waste''. Waste were the oil soaked rags used to wick oil to old style plain bearings.
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BONNIE'S OWN POEM

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Billy rode on a pinto horse
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