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#------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Return-path: <[email protected]> [email protected] (Greg Vaughn) Message-id: <[email protected]> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Pancho and Lefty (Townes Van Zandt)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 saGid good bAye GAnd sank into your dBmreamsPancho was a bandit, boys Rode a horse fast as polished steel Wore his guns outside his pants For all the honest world to feel Pancho met his match, you know On the deserts down in Mexico No one heard his dyin' words But that's the way it goesGAnd all the federales say DThey could have had him any Gday BmThey only let him sGlip aAway Out of Gkindness, I suppBmoseNow 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 old Pancho low Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go Well there ain't nobody 'knows But all the federales say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose Now poets sing 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 go so long Out of kindness, I suppose Yes a few old gray federales still say They could have had him any day They only let him go so wrong Out of kindness, I suppose