Pancho and Lefty Chords by Merle Haggard  &  Willie Nelson

[Start]

[Intro]
D A D G D G D
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■


[Verse]
                      D     
Living on the road my friend
A                                
Was gonna keep you free and clean
G                                     
■ And now you wear your skin like iron
D                          A        G
And your breath as hard as kerosene ■
                         Gmaj7
Weren't your mama's only boy  
    D            Gmaj7       
But her favorite one it seems
                               A        
She began to cry when you said ■ goodbye
    G                Bm    
And ■ sank into your dreams
C#7 D                        
■   ■ Pancho was a bandit boy
A                                   
His horse was fast as polished steel
G                                
He wore his gun outside his pants
D                  A            
For all the honest world to feel
G                              
■ Pancho met his match you know
       D               G     
On the deserts down in Mexico
Bm                  Gmaj7 F#m7 A7   
■  Nobody heard his dying ■    words
   A G                     Bm  
Ah ■ but that's the way it goes


[Chorus]
G                      
■ All the Federales say
D                         G      
■ They could have had him any day
Bm                G    A   
They only let him slip away
       G          Bm     
Out of kindness I suppose


[Verse]
D                              
■ Lefty he can't sing the blues
A                             
All night long like he used to
G                                  
The dust that Pancho bit down south
D             A            
■ Ended up in Lefty's mouth
G                                  
■ The day they laid poor Pancho low
D                 G   
■ Lefty split for Ohio
Bm                  G     F#m A  G
■  Where he got the bread to  go ■
                   Bm   
There ain't nobody knows


[Chorus]
G                      
■ All the Federales say
D                         G      
■ They could have had him any day
Bm                 G    A   
■  We only let him slip away
       G          Bm     
Out of kindness I suppose


[Solo]
G Gmaj7 D G D G Bm G
■ ■     ■ ■ ■ ■ ■  ■
A G Bm C#m7
■ ■ ■  ■   


[Verse]
D                             
The poets tell how Pancho fell
A                                   
■ And Lefty's living in cheap hotels
G                                    
■ The desert's quiet Cleveland's cold
D                A              
And so the story ends we're told
G                                    
■ Pancho needs your prayers it's true
D                  G        
But save a few for Lefty too
Bm                     G      A 
■  He only did what he had to do
G                       
And now he's growing old
    Bm               
All the Federales say


[Chorus]
              G D   G Bm         
We could have ■ had ■ him any day
                G  F#m7 A   
We only let him go so   long
       G          Bm     
Out of kindness I suppose
A G                       
■ A few gray Federales say
   D                    G      
We ■ could have had him any day
Bm              G     A   
We only let him go so long
       G          Bm      Gmaj7 G D
Out of kindness I suppose ■     ■ ■


[End]