Pancho & Lefty chords by Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt

SimplifiedC · Am · G · F · Gm

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
Living on the road my friend
F 
Is gonna keep you free and clean
Now you wear your skin like iron
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G 
And your breath as hard as kerosene
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You weren't your mama's
only boy
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F 
But her favorite one it seems
Am 
She began to cry when
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G 
you said goodbye
Gm 
F 
Am 
C 
Sank into your dreams

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Verse 2
C 
Pancho was a bandit boy
G 
His horse was fast as polished steel
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Wore his gun outside his pants
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G 
F 
For all the honest world to feel
Pancho met his match you know
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F 
On the deserts down in Mexico
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F 
Nobody heard his dying words
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Gm 
F 
Am 
Ah but that's the way it goes
F 
All the Federales

Verse 3

say

They could have had him any day

They only let him hang around

Out of kindness, I suppose

Verse 4
C 
Lefty, he can't sing the blues
G 
All night long like he used to
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F 
The dust that Pancho bit down south
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G 
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
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The day they laid poor Pancho low
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F 
Lefty split for Ohio
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F 
G 
Gm 
G 
Where he got the bread to go
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Am 
There ain't nobody knows
F 

Verse 5

All the Federales say

They could have had him any day

They only let him slip away

Interlude 1

Verse 6
C 
Now the poets tell how
G 
Pancho fell
And Lefty's living in cheap hotel
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The desert's quiet,
Cleveland's cold
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G 
F 
And so the story ends we're told
Pancho needs your prayers it's true
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F 
But save a few for Lefty too
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F 
G 
He just did what he had to do
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F 
Am 
And now he's growing old
F 

Verse 7
And a few great Federales say
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F 
They could have had him any day
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F 
They only let him go so wrong
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Gm 
G 
F 
Am 
Out of kindness, I suppose

Verse 8
F 
A few great Federales say
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F 
They could have had him any day
Am 
F 
They only let him go
G 
so wrong
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F 
Am 
Out of kindness, I suppose