PANCHO AND LEFTY
(written by Townes Van Zandt)
as done by Emmylou Harris on her album Luxury Liner
C G
Living on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean
F
Now you wear your skin like iron,
C G
Your breath as hard as kerosene.
F C F
You weren't your mama's only boy, but her favorite one it seems
C F C G
She began to cry when you said goodbye,
F Am Am G C
And sank into your dreams.
C G
Pancho was a bandit boys, his horse was fast as polished steel
F
He wore his gun outside his pants
C G
For all the honest world to feel.
F C F
Pancho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico
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Nobody heard his dying words, ah but that's the way it goes.
F C F
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
C F C G F Am
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
Am G C
C G
Lefty, he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to.
F C G
The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth
F C F
The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio
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Where he got the bread to go, there ain't nobody knows
Am G F
F C F
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
C F C G F Am Am G C
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
C G
Poets tell how Pancho fell, and Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
F
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold,
C G
And so the story ends we're told
F C F
Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too
C F C G F Am
He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old
Am G F
F C F
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
C F C G F Am
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
Am G F
F C F
A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day
C F C G F Am
They only let him go so long, out of of kindness, I suppose.
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