Pancho And Lefty Tab by Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard
Intro 1
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Dsus4
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Dsus4
Verse 1
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Living 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 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
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D/F#
A
Asus4
when you said goodbye
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Bm
A/C#
And sank into your dreams
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Verse 2
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Pancho was a bandit boy
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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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Pancho met his match you know
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On the deserts down in Mexico
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D/F#
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Nobody heard his dy ing words
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Bm
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Ah but that's the way it goes
Chorus 1
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All the Federales say
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They could have had him any day
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D/F#
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They only let him slip a- way
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Bm
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Out of kindness, I suppose
Verse 3
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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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A
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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D/F#
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Where he got the bread to go
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Bm
A
There ain't nobody knows
Chorus 2
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All the Federales say
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They could have had him any day
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D
A
They only let him slip a- way
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Bm
A
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Out of kindness, I suppose
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Solo 1
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A/C#
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Verse 4
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The poets tell how Pancho fell
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And Lefty's living in cheap hotels
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The desert's quiet, 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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D/F#
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He only did what he had to do
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Bm
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And now he's growing old
Chorus 3
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(All the Federales say)
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(They could have had him any day)
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D/F#
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They only let him go so long
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Bm
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Out of kindness, I suppose
Chorus 4
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A few gray Federales say
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We could have had him
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any day
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D/F#
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We only let him go so long
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Bm
Out of kindness, I suppose
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A
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Pancho And Lefty
Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard
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