View Guitar Chords for Pancho and lefty - chords ver. 3
Song written by Townes Van Zandt sung by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard (Verse 1)DLivin' on the road, my friend AWas gonna keep us free and clean GBut now you wear your skin like iron DAnd your breath's as hard as keArosene GYou weren't your mama's only boy DBut her favorite one, it sGeems BmShe began to cry when you said goGod bye A GAnd sank into your dBmreams (Verse 2) DPancho was a bandit, boys ARode a horse fast as polished steel GWore his guns outside his pants DFor all the honest world tAo feel GPancho met his match, you know DOn the deserts down iGn Mexico BmNo one heard his dyin' wGords A GBut that's the way iBmt goes (Chorus) GAnd all the federales say DThey could have had him any Gday BmThey only let him sGlip aAway Out of Gkindness, I suppBmose (Verse 3) DNow Lefty he can't sing the blues AAll night long like he used to GThe dust that Pancho bit down South DIt ended up in Lefty'As mouth GThe day they laid old Pancho low DLefty split for Ohio G BmWhere he got the bread tGo go A GWell there ain't nobodBmy 'knows (Chorus) (Verse 4) DNow poets sing how Pancho fell ALefty's livin' in a cheap hotel GThe desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold DAnd so the story ends, we'Are told GPancho needs your prayers, it's true DBut save a few for Lefty, toGo BmHe only did what he had to dGo A GAnd now he's growin'Bm old (Chorus) (Final Chorus) DYes a few old gray federales still say DThey could have had him any dGay BmThey only let him go soG wrong A Out of Gkindness, I suppoBmse