This guide currently identifies 32 songs heard in The Highwaymen (2019), with scene details and placement information where available.
The Highwaymen soundtrack songs
- HallelujahReuben and the DarkScene / details
Trailer
- Ford V-8 Deluxe (Main Title)Thomas NewmanScene / details
Opening, they prepare for a prison break from the Eastham Texas state prison farm.
- Eastham Prison FarmThomas NewmanScene / details
A prison break with convicts in the woods, guards on horseback in pursuit and Bonnie providing covering machine gun fire. Clyde drives away with three escapees.
- 16 BulletsThomas NewmanScene / details
First appearance of former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hunkered down and smoking in a frustratingly peaceful and idyllic retirement.
- Bonnie and ClydeThomas NewmanScene / details
The outlaws lie in wait in the dark to steal their next getaway car at a rural stoplight. Frank and Gladys hear a radio news flash of a gun battle in Reeds Springs, Missouri.
- Afraid to Dream (From "You Can't Have Everything")Benny Goodman and His OrchestraScene / details
Frank’s wife, Gladys is hosting a picnic luncheon at their home.
- Ain't She FunThomas NewmanScene / details
In the kitchen during the luncheon and as he leaves, Gladys expresses her fears, confidence and love in Frank.
- Across TexasThomas NewmanScene / details
Hamer begins his odyssey across Texas, studying crime scene photos of Bonnie and Clyde’s murder victims, eventually to meet up with his old partner, Maney Gault (Woody Harrelson)
- Maney GaultThomas NewmanScene / details
First appearance of Maney Gault showing his down and out circumstances and Hamer unseen in the distance, ponders if he should involve his old partner in the manhunt.
- West Dallas ViaductThomas NewmanScene / details
Frank and Maney make their first trip through the “Devil’s Back porch,” Bonnie and Clyde’s home neighborhood.
- Bottle BoyThomas NewmanScene / details
Scene description not yet available.
- Red Beans & CabbageThomas NewmanScene / details
Outside a courthouse, Hamer tells a young deputy about a code phrase, "Red Beans & Cabbage," used by the families to share when Bonnie and Clyde make return home trips to Dallas.
- Easter MorningThomas NewmanScene / details
A dairy farmer witnesses the early Easter morning killing of two Grapevine, Texas peace officers, by Bonnie and Clyde.
- Metal ManThomas NewmanScene / details
A man in an armored suit lumbers around Bonnie and Clyde’s neighborhood as the duo outwit the dragnet and modern police tactics.
- Into OklahomaThomas NewmanScene / details
After the Grapevine shooting, Hamer in pursuit of the outlaws, crosses the Red River bridge as Gault politely, repeatedly and humorously reminds him they are now outside of their jurisdiction.
- Pump JockeyThomas NewmanScene / details
Frank beats up a gas station attendant reluctant to share his sighting of Bonnie and Clyde, then directs them to a nearby migrant camp.
- LaudanumThomas NewmanScene / details
At the migrant camp, a young girl at the water pump brings Gault a telltale clue from the “Bonnie and Clyde” scene. They find their deserted camp spot near by; (repeats) Commerce shootout.
- Bass Man JiveOcie Stockard and His WanderersScene / details
Hamer and Gault are lost in Oklahoma. Maney turns on the radio with this tune plays then a news flash of another peace officer shooting outside Commerce, Oklahoma.
- The Other FiftyThomas NewmanScene / details
Hamer and Gault race to Commerce. Searches and roadblocks in place when they arrive but they are decidedly not welcome.
- CoffeyvilleThomas NewmanScene / details
Frank and Maney note Bonnie’s celebrity fashion influence and anticipate the outlaws next moves in a Coffeyville, Kansas cafe.
- Dope for the GirlThomas NewmanScene / details
After seeing gang members buying laudanum and parking the getaway car in a back alley, the lawmen begin pursuit, losing them in a dusty plowed field.
- Cement CityThomas NewmanScene / details
At a general store, in the pouring rain, the lawmen are astounded to find out the outlaws drove 450 miles that night. Frank and Maney return to the Cement City neighborhood to renew their search.
- Bad SeedThomas NewmanScene / details
Frank confesses his “one turn on the trail” and his first killing to Clyde Barrow’s father. In turn, Henry Barrow reluctantly asks Frank to kill Clyde and “end it for my family.”
- Billy MaceThomas NewmanScene / details
On tip that Bonnie might return to have her friend, Billy Mace do her hair, Frank and Maney find out they were tipped off after chasing down a courier carrying a message in a bottle.
- St. Louis BluesJoshua Gouzy, Matt Rhody, Russell WelchScene / details
Scene description not yet available.
- After You're GoneJoshua Gouzy, Matt Rhody, Russell WelchScene / details
Scene description not yet available.
- Bienville Parish, LAThomas NewmanScene / details
Hamer and Gault drive through the swamps and piney woods of Bienville Parish resuming the manhunt after hitting a dead end when an informant ended up dead.
- CandelariaThomas NewmanScene / details
During a poker game, Gault recalls a shootout and near massacre that still haunts him decades later.
- Ringgold RoadThomas NewmanScene / details
The lawmen lie in wait for Bonnie and Clyde to drive by.
- The Shame of ArcadiaThomas NewmanScene / details
The lawmen survey the results of their ambush. In town, a crowd shamelessly attempts to pick over the dead outlaws and their bullet ridden car for momentos as its towed down the main street.
- Terrible GiftThomas NewmanScene / details
Ma Ferguson takes credit. The lawmen drive across the Texas plains. Maney finally gets his turn behind the wheel. Ends with vintage newsreel of the gangster’s shot up car.
- The Highwaymen (End Title)Thomas NewmanScene / details
Vintage photos and end credits.