Emmylou Harris

Pancho And Lefty(Chords)

Emmylou Harris

Key: C

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	        Intro: C - F (4x)  

(verse 1)   
 C                                               G    
Living on the road, my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean,    
F                      
Now you wear your skin like iron,    
         C                        G    
Your breath as hard as kerosene,    
        F                                                      C                     F    
You weren't your mama's only boy, but her favorite one, it seems,    
            C                            F     C    G    
She began to cry when you said goodbye,    
         F                    Am    G    
And sank into your dreams,    
    
    
(verse 2)    
C                                                G    
Pancho was a bandit, boys, his horse was fast as polished steel,    
       F                                               C                   G   
He wore his gun outside his pants, for all the honest world to feel.   
F                                                              C                   F    
Pancho met his match, you know, on the deserts down in Mexico,    
C                          F  C  G                    F                     Am   G   
Nobody heard his dying words, ah, but that's the way it goes,    
    
F C F All the Federales say they could have had him any day, C F C G F Am - G They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose,
(verse 3) C G Lefty, he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to. F C G The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth, F C F The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio, C F C G F Am - G And where he got the bread to go, there ain't nobody knows,
F C F All the Federales say they could have had him any day, C F C G F Am G - C They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose,
Chords during solo: Am - F - C - C - F - F - C - Am - C - C - F/C/G - G - F - Am (verse 4) C G Poets tell how Pancho fell, and Lefty's living in a cheap hotel. F C G The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold, and so the story ends, we're told. F C F Pancho needs your prayers, it's true, but save a few for Lefty too. C F C G F Am - G He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old, Chorus) F C F All the Federales say they could have had him any day, C F C G F Am - F - G They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose. F C F A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day. C F C G F Am They only let him go so long, out of of kindness, I suppose, Ending: Am - F - C

Written by Townes Van Zandt

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