Pancho and Lefty [Live]
Steve Earle
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Livin' on the road, my friend Supposed to keep you free and clean And now you wear your skin like iron Your breath as hard as kerosene Weren't you mama's only boy But her favorite one, it seems Began to cry when you said, "Goodbye" Sank into your dreams Pancho was a bandit, boys Horse was fast as polished steel Wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel Pancho met his match, you know On the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dyin' words But that's the way it goes All the federales say "Could have had him any day Only let him hang around Out of kindness, I suppose" Lefty he can't sing the blues All night long like he used to The dust that Pancho bit down south Ended up in lefty's mouth The day they laid poor Pancho low Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go Ah, there ain't nobody knows All the federales say "Could have had him any day Only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose" Poets tell how Pancho fell Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel Desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold 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 All the federales say "Could have had him any da Only let him go so long Out of kindness, I suppose" A few gray federales say "Could have had him any day Only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose"
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Written by: Townes Van Zandt
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