Capo on the 1st fret. 
 
Verse 1: 
         E5 
      Riding North on Interstate 75 
       
      With a nervous fading beauty sitting by his side 
          A5                            E5 
      And a pistol that he used to pave the way 
                                            B5  
      Down the long black stretches of a dark highway 
 
Verse 2: 
         E5   
      Ray bought his future with a pound of lead 
       
      When he robbed a liquor store and left the clerk for dead 
          A5                                 E5  
      That kid should have put the money in the sack 
                                              B5  
      But he didn't and now there ain't no turning back 
 
Chorus 1: 
                A5                     E5   
      He's a desperate rider, he's a Jesse James 
             A5                                E5 
      The best that he could hope for is a household name 
               A5                   E5 
      There ain't nobody that a man can trust 
                B5                    E5  
      When all his headlines read, notorious 
               A5                   E5 
        There ain't nobody that a man can trust 
                B5                    E5     
      When all his headlines read, notorious 
 
Verse 3: 
          E5  
      They pulled out of ? about12 o'clock  
 
      Took the heatstroke with the lights off to avoid the road block 
         A5                              E5                                 
      Ray killed the motor at the county line 
                                           B5   
      Changed his Tennessee plates to a lost tag sign 
 
Verse 4: 
         E5           
      She would never ask what the boy had done 
 
      But said she'd be his hostage if he needed one 
         A5                           E5   
      Her momma raised her to be loyal and true 
                                              B5    
      And she figured that's the least that she could do 
 
Chorus 2: 
                 A5                  E5   
        She was lost and lonely on a midnight ride 
           A5                    E5  
        Reluctant Bonnie to a poorman's Clyde 
            A5                       E5 
      It ain't too easy when the man you love 
              B5                     E5  
      Has got a reputation that's notorious 
            A5                       E5  
        It ain't too easy when the man you love 
              B5                     E5   
      Has got a reputation that's notorious 
 
Verse 5: 
          E5 
      They were just outside of Knoxville when the lights flashed on 
 
      And the siren's starting howling like hell houndogs 
         A5                            E5   
      Ray popped that Firebird into overdrive 
                                      B5 
      And swore he'd never let them take him alive 
 
Chorus 3: 
                  A5                     E5  
        He was a desperate rider, he was Jesse James 
             A5                                  E5 
      The best that he'd ever hope for was a household name 
              A5                    E5  
      The morning papers didn't say too much 
               B5                E5 
      But his obituairy read, notorious 
             A5                             E5 
        The caption by his picture didn't say too much 
               B5                E5     
      But his obituairy read, notorious 
             A5                             E5 
        The caption by his picture didn't say too much 
               B5                E5 
      But his obituairy read, notorious