Chords for Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard -- Pancho & Lefty [REVIEW]

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_ [A] _ _ _ _ Hey [N] guys, welcome to Rockin' the Country.
I'm Don and today I'm reviewing a song, I'm actually reacting to it.
I've never heard it as far as I know.
_ It's Poncho and Lefty.
And a number of artists have covered this, _ but what I'm going to be doing, Merle Haggard
and Willie Nelson's rendition of it. _
And so, without further ado, which is not an expression I use that often, but once in
a while it's kind of fun to say.
_ _ _ _ I'm going to, oh it's off of, well I'm sure it's on a number of albums, but there's one
album, it's on Willie's, Willie Nelson, you know, his 1984 album Legend, the best of Willie Nelson.
_ I'm guessing it's on one of Merle's albums somewhere too, but here we go. _ _
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[D] _ [A] _ [D] _ Almost sounds [A] like a [G] commercial.
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_ _ Living on the road my friend, [A] was gonna keep you free and clean.
_ [G] _ Now you wear your skin like iron, _ [D] and your breath as hard [A] as kerosene.
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Weren't your mama's only [D] boy, [G] but her favorite one it seemed. _ _ _
_ She began to cry when you said [A] _ goodbye.
_ _ _ That's hard for [G] a parent man, the kid goes.
To [Bm] your dream.
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_ Poncho was a _ bandit boy, _
[A] _ his horse was fast and his paw is steel.
_ [G] He wore his gun outside his pants, _ [D] where all the [A] honest world feared.
_ [G] _ Poncho met his match you know, [D] on the deserts down in [G] _ Mexico. _ _
Nobody heard his [F#m] dying [A] _ words, _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] but that's the way [B] it goes. _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ [G] _ All the _ federalists say, [D] they could have had him [G] any day.
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They only let him [G] slip [F#m] _ [A] away, _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] out of kindness I [Bm] suppose. _ _ _
_ Let him go.
[D] _ Lefty he can't sing the blues, [A] all night long like he used to.
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But does the poncho bit down sound, _
[D] he ended up [A] and left his mound.
_ [G] Today they laid poor Poncho low, _ [D] _ Lefty split [G] for Ohio.
_ [Bm] _ _ Where he got [G] the bread [F#m] to [A] go, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] there ain't nobody [Bm] to know. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] All the _ _ federalists [Em] say, [D] they could have had [G] him any day.
_ [Bm] We only let [G] him slip [F#m] _ [A] away, [Em] _ _ _ [A] _
_ out [G] of kindness I [Bm]
suppose.
_ They let the federalists let him go, [G] in Mexico.
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_ They let [G] Poncho go. _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [A] They let _ Lefty go too and they faked a_
[G] _ Fake it?
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_ [B] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [D] The poets tell how Poncho fell, [A] _
and left his living in a cheap hotel.
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The desert's quiet, _ Cleveland's cold, [D] _ and so the story [A] ends we're told.
[G] _ _ Poncho need your prayers and truth, [D] _ to save a few [G] from Lefty's tomb.
_ He only did what he [A] had to _ do, _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ and now he's [Bm] growing old. _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [G] _ All the _ federalists _ [D] say, they could have had him [G]
any day.
[Bm] _ We only let him [F#m] go so [A] _ _ long, _ _ _ _ [G] out of kindness I [Bm] suppose. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [G] A few great _ federalists say, [D] they could have had him [G]
any day.
[B] We only let him [G] go [D] so [A] _ _ long, _ _ _ _ [G] out of kindness I [Bm]
suppose. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Wow, _ that's what a_
_ _ _ Seriously interesting song.
_ So, _ context here, _ _ _ I mean, there's the sadness of a mother losing her son,
not to death, but he wanted to hit the road, he [N] went down to Mexico. _
The federalists said, you know, the Mexican police, we could have had him any day, we wanted.
_ But _ _ earlier in the song it was supposed, I guess, that they let him go, out of kindness. _
And then later on it resolves itself where the federalists said,
_ yeah, you know, we could have had him any day, but we let him go, out of kindness I suppose.
They don't even know why they did it, it was just supposed.
Kindness let this man go, then he got to grow old.
By then his mother had passed away, and there's so much context there,
you know, when you think about the dynamics of human relationships and family life
and _ heartbreak and the difficulties in life.
So, _ _ yeah, I've not heard it before.
I'm not going to rate that one either, I mean, that just wouldn't even be right, to rate a song like that.
It's an old one.
Merle and Willie were young in these, and their voices are unmistakable, those two.
_ _ It's just a classic song.
I mean, that's the first time I've ever heard it, _
but I've heard a lot of people reference it, talk about it, _ in different circles.
So, there it is, guys.
There's Pacho and Lefty by Willie and Merle.
And _ leave a comment, I mean, I'm sure you guys _ know,
what this song is about much better than I do.
_ [A] I'll know more the next two or three times I hear it, and then read your comments.
All right, have a great day, guys.
Keep rocking the country.
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