Pancho And Lefty

[Intro]
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G D C D C Bm G G C G C G D G

[Pre-Verse]
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[Verse 1]
G
 Livin on the road my friend ,
D
 is gonna keep you free and clean
C
 And now you wear your skin like iron
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 And your breath as hard as kerosene
C
 Weren't your momma's only boy,
        G
but her favorite one it seemed
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    She began to cry when you said
D
 goodbye

[Pre-Chorus]
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 And sank into your dreams

[Verse 2]
G
 Pancho was a bandit boy,
D
 his horse was fast as polished steel
C
 He wore his gun outside his pants
G                        D
 For all the honest world to feel
C
 Pancho met his match, you know,
       G                 C
on the deserts down in Mexico
Em                   C G/B      D
  Nobody heard his dyin   words,

[Pre-Chorus]
C                         Em  D/F#
 ah but that's the way it goes

[Chorus]
C
 All the Federales say,
G                       C
 they could've had him any day
Em                      C G/B D          C
  They only let him slip a___way, out of kindness,
         Em
I suppose

[Verse 3]
G
 Lefty,
                        D
he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to
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 The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's
mouth
C
 The day they laid poor Pancho low,
G                 C
 Lefty split for Ohio
Em                      C  G/B D
  Where he got the bread to    go,
C                        Em D/F#
 there ain't nobody knows

[Chorus]
C
 All the Federales say,
G                       C
 they could've had him any day
Em                      C G/B D          C
  They only let him slip a___way, out of kindness,
         Em
I suppose

[Solo]
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C Em

[Verse 4]
G
 The poets tell how old Pancho fell,
D
 and Lefty's livin in cheap hotels
C
 The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold
G                      D
 And so the story ends, we're told
C
 Pancho needs your prayers it's true,
G                   C
 but save a few for Lefty too
Em                    C   G/B D
  He only did what he had to  do,
C                     Em D/F#
 and now he's growing old

[Chorus]
C
 All the Federales say,
G                       C
 they could've had him any day
Em                    C  G/B D
  They only let him go so    long,
       C                 Em
out of kindness I suppose

[Outro]
C
 A few gray Federales say,
G                       C
 they could've had him any day
Em                    C  G/B D
  They only let him go so    long,
       C
out of kindness I suppose
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