Pancho and Lefty Chords by Townes Van Zandt

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[Db] _ Living on the road, my friend, [Ab] was gonna keep you free and clean.
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_ Now you wear your skin like [Db] iron and your breath's as [Ab] hard as kerosene.
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You weren't your mama's only son, [Db] but her favorite [Gb] one it seems.
_ [Ab] [Bbm] She began to [Gb] cry when you [Ab] said goodbye, _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] and sank into [Ab] your [Bbm] _ dreams. _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ Pancho was a bandit, boys, [Ab] his horse was fast as polished steel.
[Gb] _ Wore his gun [Ebm] outside [Gb] his pants [Db] for all the [Ab] honest world to feel.
[Gb] _ _ Pancho met his match, you know, [Db]
on the borders down [Gb] in Mexico.
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[Bbm] And nobody heard his [Gb] [Ab] dying words, _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] and that's the way [Bbm] it goes. _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] And all the _ _ federales [Db] say they could have [Gb] had him any day.
[Bbm] _ They only let him [Ab] hang around _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] out of kindness, [Ebm] I [Bbm] suppose. _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ [Db] _ Well, lefty, he can't sing the blues [Ab] all night long like he used to.
_ [Gb] The dust that Pancho bit down [Db] south ended [Ab] up in Lefty's mouth.
_ [Gb] The day that late poor Pancho [Db] left, _ Lefty left for [Gb] Ohio, _
[Bbm] _ where he got the bread [F] [Ab] to go.
_ _ _ _ [Gb] Oh, that ain't [Ab] nobody [Bbm] _ knows. _ _ _
_ [Gb] And all the _ _ federales [Ab] say [Db] they could have [Gb] had him any day.
[Ab] _ [Bbm] They only let him [Ab] slip away _ out _ _ [Gb] of kindness, I [Bbm] suppose. _ _ _ _
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[Db] _ Well, the poets tell how Pancho [Ab] fell, _ Lefty's living in a cheap hotel. _
[Gb] The border's quiet and Cleveland's [Ebm] cold, [Db] _ so the [Fm] [Ab] story ends we're told.
[Gb] _ _ Pancho needs your prayers, it's true.
[Db] Save a [Gb] few for Lefty, too.
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[Bbm] He just did what he had [Ab] to do. _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] Oh, and now he's [Ab] growing [Bbm] old.
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_ [Gb] And all the federales say [Db] they could have [Gb] had him any day.
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[Bbm] They only let him [Ab] go so wrong _ _ _ _ [Gb] out of kindness, [Ebm] I [Bbm] suppose. _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ [Gb] A few great _ federales [Ab] say [Db] they could have [Gb] had him any day.
[Ab] _ [Bbm] They only let him [Gb] go [Ab] so wrong _ _ _ _ [Gb] out of kindness, [Ab] I suppose.
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