Chords for Steve Earle sings "Pancho & Lefty" with Ray Wylie Hubbard

[Am] _ _ _ [C] Living on the roof, my [G] friend, is gonna keep you free and [F] clean.
You wear your skin like [G] ash, red as the [G] sardines kerosene.
[F] Watch your momma's lonely boat, [G] but her baby one sings.
[Am] She'll pick in the crowd when you say goodbye, [G] _
_ you sang her a G [Am].O.D. ring.
_ _ [C] _
Poncho's a bandit boy, [G] horses fast as [F] polystyrene.
Or his gun outside his [G] fence, the broad and his words [C] deep.
Poncho [F] made a match, you know, on the desert's panamax.
_ [Am]
Nobody heard his [G] dying words. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] All the [F] federales said, [C] could hate him any [Am] day.
Only let him hang [G] around the _ side.
[Am] _ _ _ [C] _
That Pete can't sing the flutes, [G] all night long like he used [F] to.
The dust of Poncho bit him down [G] sad, he looked it up and left his [F] mouth.
Bit of lead threw Poncho low, [C] left his spliff row high.
[Am]
Where he got the bread to go, [G] _ _ came a [Am] bloody head.
_ _ [D] All the federales [G] said, could [C] hate him any [Am] day.
Only let him go so wrong, [G] _
_ [G] had a kindness [Am] I suppose.
_ _ [G] _
Poets tell our Poncho family, death is living at your heel.
[F] The desert's quiet, the Cleveland's cold, the story hands are told.
Poncho needs a present, true, but save a [C] pupil left it too.
[Am] He only did what he [G] had to do, _ [D] now he's [E] growing ill.
_ _ [C] All the federales said, could [C] hate him any day.
[Am] Only let him [G] slip away, _ had a kindness [Am] I suppose.
[C] The great federales said, [G] could hate him any [Am] day.
Only let him [G] hang around, _ [C] had a kindness I suppose.
[E] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ I was in [G] Dallas when the town broke, you know they had that big thing in