Pancho and Lefty - Willie Nelson Chords
Chords: D, A, G, Bm
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D A
Living on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean
G
Now you wear your skin like iron,
D A
Your breath as hard as kerosene.
G D G
You weren't your mama's only boy, but her favorite one it seems
D G D A
She began to cry when you said goodbye,
G Bm Bm A D
And sank into your dreams.
D A
Pancho was a bandit boy, his horse was fast as polished steel
G
He wore his gun outside his pants
D A
For all the honest world to feel.
G D G
Pancho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico
D G D A G Bm Bm A G
Nobody heard his dying words, ah but that's the way it goes.
G D G
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
D G D A G Bm
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
D A
Lefty, he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to.
G D A
The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth
G D G
The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio
D G D A G Bm
Where he got the bread to go, there ain't nobody knows
G D G
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
D G D A G Bm Bm A D
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
D A
The boys tell how Pancho fell, and Lefty's living in cheap hotels
G
The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold,
D A
And so the story ends we're told
G D G
Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too
D G D A G Bm
He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old
G D G
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
D G D A G Bm
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
G D G
A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day
D G D A G D G A D
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
D G D A
She began to cry when you said goodbye,
G Bm Bm A D
And sank into your dreams.
G Bm Bm A G
ah but that's the way it goes.
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