The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde (song) duo Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, starting from the time they met to their violent death in an ambush. The B-side of the single was "Today I Started Loving You Again." A ballad composed by Haggard and Bonnie Owens, the song neither charted on its own as a single nor was listed as a flip-side "tag-along" hit. Nonetheless, "Today I Started Loving You Again" became one of Haggard's most popular songs and would be a staple of classic country music radio stations' playlists. Released in February 1968, "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde" was Merle Haggard's fourth No. 1 song
Bonnie and Clyde that Barrow was accused of murder. While being held in jail until June 17, Parker wrote poetry to pass the time. When the Kaufman County grand jury convened, it declined to indict her and she was released. Within a few weeks, she reunited with Barrow. On August 5, while Parker was visiting her mother in Dallas, Barrow, Raymond Hamilton and Ross Dyer were drinking alcohol at a country dance in Stringtown, Oklahoma, when Sheriff C.G. Maxwell and his deputy, Eugene C. Moore, approached them in the parking lot. Barrow and Hamilton opened fire, killing the deputy and gravely wounding the