Pancho and Lefty Chords by Townes Van Zandt

[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Living on the road my friend
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■  Is gonna keep you free and clean
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■  Now you wear your skin like iron
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Your breath as hard as kerosene
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You weren't your mama's only boy
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But her favorite one it seems
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■  She began to cry when you said goodbye
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And sank into your dreams
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■  Pancho was a bandit boys
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His horse was fast as polished steel
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He wore his gun outside his pants
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For all the honest world to feel
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■  Pancho met his match you know
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On the deserts down in mexico
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Nobody heard his dying words
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Ah but that's the way it goes
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An all the federales say
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They could have had him any day
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They only let him hang around
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Out of kindness I suppose
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■  Lefty he can't sing the blues
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All night long like he used to
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The dust that Pancho bit down south
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Ended up in lefty's mouth
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The day they laid poor Pancho low
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Lefty split for Ohio
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■   Where he got the bread to go
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There ain't nobody knows


[Chorus]
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An all the federales say
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They could have had him any day
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They only let him slip away ■ 
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Out of kindness I suppose


[Inst]
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[Verse]
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The poets tell how Pancho fell
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And Lefty's living in cheap hotels
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■  The desert's quiet Cleveland's cold
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So the story ends we're told
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Pancho needs your prayers it's true
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Save a few for Lefty too ■  
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He just did what he had to do ■ 
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And now he's growing old


[Chorus]
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A few great federales say ■ 
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They could have had him any day
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They only let him go so long
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Out of kindness I suppose
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■  A few great federales say
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They could have had him any day ■  
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They only let him go so long
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Out of kindness I suppose ■  ■  


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