Pancho And Lefty chords by Ashley Campbell

Intro:
C  C/G  C  C/G  (2x)

Verse 1:

C
 Livin' on the road, my friend

G
 Was gonna keep us free and clean

F
 But now you wear your skin like iron

          C                   G
 And your breath's as hard as kerosene

F
 You weren't your mama's only boy

        C                F
But her favorite one, it seems

    Am                    F    C   G
She began to cry when you said goodbye

    F                Am
And sank into your dreams

Verse 2:

C
 Pancho was a bandit, boys

G
 Rode a horse fast as polished steel

F
 Wore his guns outside his pants

     C              G
 For all the honest world to feel

F
 Pancho met his match, you know

        C               F
 On the deserts down in Mexico

Am                F C   G
 No one heard his dyin' words

     F                    Am
 But that's the way it goes

Chorus:

F
 All the federales say

      C                  F
 They could have had him any day

      Am           F    C G
 They only let him slip a-way

        F                 Am
 Out of kindness, I suppose

Verse 3:

C
 Lefty he can't sing the blues

 G
 All night long like he used to

F
 The dust that Pancho bit down South

    C           G
 It ended up in Lefty's mouth

F
 The day they laid old Pancho low

 C               G
 Lefty split for Ohio

Am                F     C  G
 Where he got the bread to go

            F                Am
 Well there ain't nobody knows

Chorus:

F
 All the federales say

      C                  F
 They could have had him any day

      Am           F    C G
 They only let him slip a-way

        F                 Am
 Out of kindness, I suppose

Verse 4:

C
 Poets tell how Pancho fell

G
 Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel

F
 The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold

     C            G
 And so the story ends, we're told

F
 Pancho needs your prayers, it's true

     C              G
 But save a few for Lefty, too

 Am                  F   C  G
 He only did what he had to do

     F                  Am
 And now he's growin' old

Chorus:

F
 All the federales say

      C                  F
 They could have had him any day

      Am           F    C G
 They only let him slip a-way

        F                 Am
 Out of kindness, I suppose

Chorus:

       F
 Yes a few old gray federales still say

      C                  F
 They could have had him any day

      Am           F  C  G
 They only let him go so wrong

        F                 Am
 Out of kindness, I suppose