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PANCHO AND LEFTY             TOWNES VAN ZANDT


C     G     F     Am

C                       
Living on the road my friend
G    
Is gonna keep you free and clean
F                    
Now you wear your skin like iron
C                      G
Your breath as hard as kerosene

F                                           
Weren't your mama's only boy
         C               F
But her favorite one it seems
    Am                      F   C   G    
She began to cry when you said goodbye
    F                Am           
And sank into your dreams

 
C                                             
Pancho was a bandit, boys,
      G    
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                                       
Pancho met his match you know on the
 C               F
deserts down in Mexico
 Am               F C    G               
Nobody heard his dying words
      F                Am      
but that's the way it goes


Chorus:

F                        
All the Federales say they
C                    F
  could have had him any day
Am                    F  C      G    
  They only let him slip a  -  way
         F             Am           
out of kindness I suppose

 
  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                 F    C    G           
Where he got the bread to   go
       F             Am     
there ain't nobody knows

Chorus

  
C     G     F     Am
 

C                                 
Poets tell how Pancho fell and
G    
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                                          
Pancho needs your prayers it's true but
  C             F
save a few for Lefty too
    Am               F   C    G    
He only did what he had to   do 
     F               Am    
and now he's growing old


Chorus 2:

F                      
All the Federales say
C                     F
  could have had him any day
Am                F  C      G    
We only let him slip a  -  way
        F             Am    
out of kindness I suppose

F                         
A few gray Federales say 
 C                 F
could have had him any day
Am                    F  C     G       
We only only let him go so    long
           F             Am    
out of of kindness I suppose

 
Am