Pancho and Lefty

{title: Pancho and Lefty}

{comment: Verse 1}
[C]Livin' on the road, my friend
[G]Was gonna keep us free and clean
[F]Now you wear your skin like iron
[C]And your breath's as hard as [G]kerosene
[F]Weren't your mama's only boy
[C]But her favorite [F]one, it seems
[Am]She began to cry when you [F]said good [G]bye
[F]And sank into your [Am]dreams

{comment: Verse 2}
[C]Pancho was a bandit, boys
[G]Horse fast as polished steel
[F]Wore his guns outside his pants
[C]For all the honest world to [G]feel
[F]Pancho met his match, you know
[C]On the deserts down in [F]Mexico
[Am]Nobody heard his dyin' [F]words [G]
[F]But that's the way it [Am]goes

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[F]And all the federales say
[C]They could have had him [F]any day
[Am]They only let him hang a[F]round [G]
[F]Out of kindness, I sup[Am]pose
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{comment: Verse 3}
[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]It ended up in [G]Lefty's mouth
[F]The day they laid poor Pancho low
[C]Lefty split for [F]Ohio
[Am]Where he got the bread to [F]go [G]
[F]Ahh there ain't nobody [Am]knows

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[F]And all the federales say
[C]They could have had him [F]any day
[Am]They only let him hang a[F]round [G]
[F]Out of kindness, I sup[Am]pose
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{comment: Verse 4}
[C]Poets tell how Pancho fell
[G]Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
[F]The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
[C]And so the story ends, [G]we're told
[F]Pancho needs your prayers, it's true
[C]But save a few for [F]Lefty, too
[Am]He only did what he [F]had to [G]do
[F]And now he's growin' [Am]old

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[F]And all the federales say
[C]They could have had him [F]any day
[Am]They only let him hang a[F]round [G]
[F]Out of kindness, I sup[Am]pose
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{comment: Final Chorus}
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[F]Yes a few old gray federales still say
[C]They could have had him [F]any day
[Am]They only let him go so [F]wrong [G]
[F]Out of kindness, I sup[Am]pose
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