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[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]And your breath's as hard as [G]kerosene [F]You weren't your mama's only boy But her [C]favorite one, it [F]seems [Am]She began to cry When you [G]said good bye And [F]sank into your [Am]dreams [C]Pancho was a bandit, boys [G]his horse was fast as polished steel [F]Wore his guns outside his pants [C]For all the honest [G]world to feel [F]Pancho met his match, you know On the [C]deserts down in [F]Mexico [Am]No one heard his [F]dyin' [G]words But [F]that's the way it [Am]goes [F]And all the federales say [C]They could have had him [F]any day [Am]They only let him [F]slip a[G]way Out of [F]kindness, I sup[Am]pose [C]Now Lefty he can't sing the blues [G]All night long like he used to [F]The dust that Pancho bit down South [C]It ended up in [G]Lefty's mouth [F]The day they laid old Pancho low [C]Lefty split for [F]Ohio [Am]Where he got the [F]bread to [G]go Well there [F]ain't nobody [Am]knows [F]But all the federales say [C]They could have had him [F]any day [Am]They only let him [F]slip a[G]way Out of [F]kindness, I sup[Am]pose [C]Now poets sing how Pancho fell [G]and Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel [F]The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold [C]And so the story [G]ends, we're told [F]Pancho needs your prayers, it's true [C]But save a few for [F]Lefty, too [Am]He only did what he [F]had to [G]do And [F]now he's growin' [Am]old [F]And all the federales say [C]They could have had him [F]any day [Am]They only let him [F]slip a[G]way Out of [F]kindness, I sup[Am]pose [F]a few gray federales say [C]They could have had him [F]any day [Am]They only let him [F]go so [G]long Out of [F]kindness, I sup[Am]pose |