Willie Nelson - Pancho And Lefty lyrics
rate meLivin' on the road my friend<br />
Is gonna keep you free and clean<br />
And now you wear your skin like iron<br />
And your breath is hard as kerosene<br />
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Weren't you mamma's only boy?<br />
Her favorite one it seems<br />
She began to cry when you said<br />
Good-bye, sank to your dream<br />
<br />
Poncho was a bandit boy<br />
His horse was fast as polished steel<br />
He wore his gun outside his pants<br />
For all the honest world to feel<br />
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Poncho met his match, you know<br />
On the deserts down in Mexico<br />
Nobody heard his dyin' word<br />
Oh but that's the way it goes<br />
<br />
All the Federales, they 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<br />
All night long like he used to<br />
The dust that Poncho bit down South<br />
Ended up in Lefty's mouth<br />
<br />
The day they lay poor Poncho low<br />
Lefty split for Ohio<br />
Where he got the bread to go<br />
There ain't nobody knows<br />
<br />
All the Federales they say<br />
We could have had him any day<br />
We only let him slip away<br />
Out of kindness I suppose<br />
<br />
The poets tell how Poncho fell<br />
And Lefty's livin' in cheap hotels<br />
The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold<br />
And so the story ends we're told<br />
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Poncho needs your prayers, it's true<br />
Save a few for Lefty too<br />
He only did what he had to do<br />
And now he's growin' old<br />
<br />
All the Federales, they say<br />
We could have had him any day<br />
They only let him go so long<br />
Out of kindness I suppose<br />
<br />
A few gray Federales, they say<br />
Could have had him any day<br />
We only let him go so long<br />
Out of kindness I suppose<br /><br />
