How to Play Pancho and Lefty on Guitar?

Emmylou Harris - Pancho and Lefty can be played in the key of C using the C, G, F, Am chords. For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D. For G, To play G, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute low E, high E. For F, To play F, barre fret 1 from the B string to the high E string with finger 1, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 4, let A ring open, mute D, G. For Am, To play Am, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute D, G. Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat. You can play Pancho and Lefty with the ↓-↓↑-↓-↓↑-↓↑↓↑ strumming pattern.

Emmylou Harris - Pancho and Lefty Chords

Chord reference C, G, F, Am

Rhythm tips ↓-↓↑-↓-↓↑-↓↑↓↑

[C]Living’ on the road my friend, [G]was gonna keep you free and clean [F]Now you wear your skin like iron, your [C]breath’s as hard as [G]kerosene [F]You weren’t your mamma’s only boy, but her [C]favourite one it [F]seems [Am]Began to cry when you [F]said goodbye [C], [G] And [F]sank into your [Am]dreams[C]

[C]Pancho was a bandit boys, [G]his horse was fast as polished steel [F]He wore his gun outside his pants, for [C]all the honest [G]world to feel [F]Pancho met his match you know, in the [C]desert down in [F]Mexico And [Am]no one heard his [F]dying [C]words, [G] But [F]that’s the way it [Am]goes[F]

[F]All the Federales say, we [C]could have had him [F]any day [Am]We only let him [F]slip a[G]way, [G], out of [F]kindness I sup[Am]pose[C]

[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]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 [F]bread to [C]go, [G] There [F]ain’t nobody [Am]knows[F]

[F]All the Federales say, we [C]could have had him [F]any day [Am]We only let him [F]slip a[C]way, [G], out of [F]kindness I sup[Am]pose[C]

[C]The poets tell how Pancho fell, [G]Lefty’s living in a cheap hotel [F]The desert’s quiet and Cleveland’s cold, and [C]so the story [G]ends, we’re told [F]Pancho needs your prayers it’s true, but [C]save a few for [F]Lefty too [Am]He only did what he [F]had to [C]do, [G] And [F]now he’s growing [Am]old[F]

[F]All the Federales say, we [C]could have had him [F]any day [Am]We only let him [F]slip a[G]way, [G], out of [F]kindness I sup[Am]pose[C] [F]A few grey Federales say, [C]could have had him [F]any day [Am]We only let him [F]go [C]so [G]long, [G]out of [F]kindness I sup[Am]pose

Artist Emmylou Harris

Album Luxury Liner

Genres Country

Year 1977

Key C

Emmylou Harris - Pancho and Lefty can be played in the key of C using the C, G, F, Am chords.

For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D.
For G, To play G, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute low E, high E.
For F, To play F, barre fret 1 from the B string to the high E string with finger 1, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 4, let A ring open, mute D, G.
For Am, To play Am, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute D, G.

Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat.

You can play Pancho and Lefty with the ↓-↓↑-↓-↓↑-↓↑↓↑ strumming pattern.