Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson - Pancho And Lefty lyrics

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Livin' 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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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