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Pancho & Lefty

(Townes Van Zandt: JTVZ Music)

 

 Livin' on the road, my friend is gonna keep us free and clean

now you wear your skin like iron, your breath's as hard as kerosene.

You weren't your mama's only boy, but her favorite one, it seems.

She began to cry when you said good bye and sank into your dreams.

 

Pancho was a bandit, boys; horse fast as polished steel.

Wore his guns outside his pants for all the honest world to feel.

Pancho met his match, you know in the deserts down in Mexico.

Nobody  heard his dyin' words, but that's the way it goes

 

And all the federales say, they could have had him any day.

They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose

 

Lefty he can't sing the blues, all night long like he used to.

The dust that Pancho bit down South, it ended up in Lefty's mouth.

The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio.

Where he got the bread to go, ahh there ain't nobody 'knows

 

And all the federales say, they could have had him any day.

They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose

 

The poets tell how Pancho fell; Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel.

The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold, and so the story ends, we're told

Pancho needs your prayers, it's true, but save a few for Lefty, too.

He only did what he had to do, and now he's growin' old.

 

And all the federales say, they could have had him any day.

They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose

A few old gray federales say, we could have caught him any day

They only let him go so long out of kindness, I suppose.                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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