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