Capo on the 1st fret. 
 
Verse 1: 
         E 
      Riding North on Interstate 75 
       
      With a nervous fading beauty sitting by his side 
          A                            E 
      And a pistol that he used to pave the way 
                                            B7  
      Down the long black stretches of a dark highway 
 
Verse 2: 
         E   
      Ray bought his future with a pound of lead 
       
      When he robbed a liquor store and left the clerk for dead 
          A                                 E  
      That kid should have put the money in the sack 
                                              B7  
      But he didn't and now there ain't no turning back 
 
Chorus 1: 
                A                     E   
      He's a desperate rider, he's a Jesse James 
             A                                E 
      The best that he could hope for is a household name 
               A                   E 
      There ain't nobody that a man can trust 
                B7                    E  
      When all his headlines read, notorious 
               A                   E 
        There ain't nobody that a man can trust 
                B7                    E     
      When all his headlines read, notorious 
 
Verse 3: 
          E  
      They pulled out of ? about12 o'clock  
 
      Took the heatstroke with the lights off to avoid the road block 
         A                              E                                 
      Ray killed the motor at the county line 
                                           B7   
      Changed his Tennessee plates to a lost tag sign 
 
Verse 4: 
         E           
      She would never ask what the boy had done 
 
      But said she'd be his hostage if he needed one 
         A                           E   
      Her momma raised her to be loyal and true 
                                              B7    
      And she figured that's the least that she could do 
 
Chorus 2: 
                 A                  E   
        She was lost and lonely on a midnight ride 
           A                    E  
        Reluctant Bonnie to a poorman's Clyde 
            A                       E 
      It ain't too easy when the man you love 
              B7                     E  
      Has got a reputation that's notorious 
            A                       E  
        It ain't too easy when the man you love 
              B7                     E   
      Has got a reputation that's notorious 
 
Verse 5: 
          E 
      They were just outside of Knoxville when the lights flashed on 
 
      And the siren's starting howling like hell houndogs 
         A                            E   
      Ray popped that Firebird into overdrive 
                                      B7 
      And swore he'd never let them take him alive 
 
Chorus 3: 
                  A                     E  
        He was a desperate rider, he was Jesse James 
             A                                  E 
      The best that he'd ever hope for was a household name 
              A                    E  
      The morning papers didn't say too much 
               B7                E 
      But his obituairy read, notorious 
             A                             E 
        The caption by his picture didn't say too much 
               B7                E     
      But his obituairy read, notorious 
             A                             E 
        The caption by his picture didn't say too much 
               B7                E 
      But his obituairy read, notorious