Emmylou Harris – Pancho and Lefty Chords

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

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

All the Federales say, we could have had him any day
We 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, ended up in Lefty’s mouth
The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio
Where he got the bread to go,
There ain’t nobody knows

All the Federales say, we could have had him any day
We only let him slip away, , out of kindness I suppose

The poets tell how Pancho fell, Lefty’s living 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 growing old

All the Federales say, we could have had him any day
We only let him slip away, , out of kindness I suppose
A few grey Federales say, could have had him any day
We only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose