Willie Nelson – Pancho And Lefty (Guitar)

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Livin' on the road, my friend

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Was gonna keep you free and clean

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And now you wear your skin like iron

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And your breath's as hard as kerosene

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Weren't your mama's only boy

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But her favorite one, it seems

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She began to cry when you said goodbye

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(And) sank into your dreams

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Pancho was a bandit, boys

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His horse was fast as polished steel

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He wore his gun outside his pants

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For all the honest world to feel

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Well, Pancho met his match, you know

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On the deserts down in Mexico

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Nobody heard his dyin' words

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Ah, but that's the way it goes

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All the federales say

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They could have had him any day

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They only let him slip away

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Out of kindness, I suppose

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Lefty he can't sing the blues

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All night long like he used to

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The dust that Pancho bit down South

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Ended up in Lefty's mouth

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The day they laid poor Pancho low

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Lefty split for Ohio

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Where he got the bread to go

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There ain't nobody knows

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All the federales say

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They could have had him any day

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We only let him slip away

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Out of kindness, I suppose

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The poets tell how Pancho fell

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And Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel

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The desert's quiet, and Cleveland's cold

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And so the story ends, we're told

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Pancho needs your prayers, it's true

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But save a few for Lefty, too

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He only did what he had to do

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And now he's growin' old

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All the federales say

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They could have had him any day

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They only let him go so long

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Out of kindness, I suppose

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A few gray federales say

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They could have had him any day

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They only let him go so long

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Out of kindness, I suppose