Poncho And Lefty
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: E.Simons@buro.kun.nl Subject: Pancho & Lefty as done by Emmylou Harris
PANCHO AND LEFTY (written by Townes Van Zandt)
as done by Emmylou Harris on her album Luxury Liner
C G Living on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean F Now you wear your skin like iron,
C G Your breath as hard as kerosene. F C F You weren't your mama's only boy, but her favorite one it seems C F C G She began to cry when you said goodbye,
F Am Am G C And sank into your dreams. C G Pancho was a bandit boys, his horse was fast as polished steel F He wore his gun outside his pants
C G For all the honest world to feel. F C F Pancho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico C F C G F Am Am G F Nobody heard his dying words, ah but that's the way it goes.
F C F All the Federales say they could have had him any day C F C G F Am They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
Am G C C G Lefty, he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to. F C G The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth F C F The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio C F C G F Am Where he got the bread to go, there ain't nobody knows
Am G F F C F All the Federales say they could have had him any day C F C G F Am Am G C They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
C G
Poets tell how Pancho fell, and Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
F
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold,
C G
And so the story ends we're told
F C F
Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too
C F C G F Am
He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old
Am G F F C F All the Federales say they could have had him any day C F C G F Am They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
Am G F F C F A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day C F C G F Am They only let him go so long, out of of kindness, I suppose.
