Pancho And Lefty

Townes van Zandt

CLiving on the road my friend
GIs gonna keep you free and clean
FNow you wear your skin like iron
CYour breath as hard as Gkerosene
FWeren't your mama's only boy
But her Cfavorite one it Fseems
She Ambegan to cry when you Fsaid goodGbye
And Fsank into your Amdreams

CPancho was a bandit boys
Ghis horse fast as polished steel
FHe wore his gun outside his pants
CFor all the honest Gworld to feel
FBut Pancho met his match you know
on the Cdeserts down in FMexico
AmNobody heard his Fdying Gwords
ah but Fthat's the way it Amgoes

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FAll the Federales say
Cthey could have had him Fany day
AmThey only let him Fslip aGway
out of Fkindness I supAmpose

CLefty he can't sing the blues
Gall night long like he used to
FThe dust that Pancho bit down south
Cended up in GLefty's mouth
FWhen they laid poor Pancho low
CLefty split for FOhio
AmWhere he got the Fbread to Ggo
there Fain't nobody Amknows

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CPoets tell how Pancho fell
Gand Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
FThe desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
And Cso the story Gends we're told
FPancho needs your prayers it's true
Cbut save a few for FLefty too
AmHe only did what he Fhad to Gdo
and Fnow he's growing Amold

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