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C
Living on the road my friend
G
Was gonna keep us free and clean
F
But now you wear your skin like iron
C G
And your breath's as hard as kerosene
F
You weren't your mama's only boy
C F
But her favorite one it seems
Am
She began to cry
F G
When you said good bye
F Am
And sank into your dreams
C
Pancho was a bandit boys
G
His horse was fast as polished steel
F
Wore his guns outside his pants
C G
For all the honest world to feel
F
Pancho met his match you know
C F
On the deserts down in Mexico
Am G
Nobody heard his dying words
F Am
But that's the way it goes
F
And all the federales say
C F
They could have had him any day
Am F G
They only let him slip away
F Am
Out of kindness I suppose
C
Lefty he can't sing the blues
G
All night long like he used to
F
The dust that Pancho bit down South
C G
ended up in Lefty's mouth
F
The day they laid old Pancho low
C F
Lefty split for Ohio
Am G
Where he got the bread to go
F Am
There ain't nobody knows
F
And all the federales say
C F
They could have had him any day
Am F G
They only let him slip away
F Am
Out of kindness I suppose
C
The poets tell how Pancho fell
G
and Lefty's livin' in cheap hotels
F
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
C G
And so the story ends we're told
F
Pancho needs your prayers it's true
C F
save a few for Lefty too
Am G
He only did what he had to do
F Am
And now he's growing old
F
And all the federales say
C F
They could have had him any day
Am F G
They only let him slip away
F Am
Out of kindness I suppose
F
a few great federales say
C F
We could have had him any day
Am F G
We only let him go so long
F Am
Out of kindness I suppose
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Published: 16 Jun, 2015
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