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