Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard

Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard - Pancho And Lefty lyrics

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Living 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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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(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

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