Frank Turner - Pancho Lefty Chords

[INTRO]
C


[VERSE]
C
Living on the road my friend
G
Was gonna keep you free and clean
F
Now you wear your skin like iron
         C                 G
Your breath's as hard as kerosene
 F
You weren't your mama's only boy
          C                F
But her favorite one it seems
         Am                   C  C/B  G
She began to cry when you said goodbye
       F             Am
And sank into her dreams
 C
Pancho was a bandit boys
      G
His horse was fast as polished steel
  F
Wore his gun outside his pants
      C              G
For all the honest world to feel
 F
Pancho met his match you know
         C               F
On the deserts down in Mexico
Am                 C C/B G
Nobody heard his dying words
  F                 Am
That's the way it goes


[CHORUS]
 F
All the federales say
 C                        F
They could have had him any day
Am                  C    C/B G
They just let him hang a---round
         F             Am
Out of kindness I suppose


[VERSE]
 C
Lefty he can't sing the blues
  G
All night long like he used to
      F
The dust that Pancho bit down south
  C           G
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
      F
The day they laid poor Pancho low
  C               F
Lefty split for Ohio
Am                 C     C/B  G
Where he got the bread to   go
        F            Am
There ain't nobody knows


[CHORUS]
 F
All the federales say
 C                        F
They could have had him any day
Am                  C    C/B G
They just let him hang a---round
         F             Am
Out of kindness I suppose


[INSTRUMENTAL]
F  C  F  Am  C 
C/B  G  F  Am


[VERSE]
C
The poets tell how Pancho fell
  G
Lefty's livin' in a cheap motel
      F
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
  C             G
So the story ends we're told
  F
Pancho needs your prayers it's true,
      C              F
But save a few for Lefty too
 Am                   C  C/B G
He just did what he had to do
  F                Am
Now he's growing old


[CHORUS]
 F
All the federales say
 C                        F
They could have had him any day
Am                  C    C/B G
They just let him hang a---round
         F             Am
Out of kindness I suppose
    F
A few gray federales say
 C                        F
They could have had him any day
 Am                 C    C/B  G
They just let him slip a----way
         F             Am
Out of kindness I suppose


[END]
Am