Pancho And Lefty - Live-Townes Van Zandt

[ti:Pancho And Lefty - Live] [ar:Townes Van Zandt] [al:Live At The Old Quarter, Houst] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pancho And Lefty - Live - Townes Van Zandt [00:26.78]Livin' on the road my friend [00:28.52] [00:29.78]Was gonna keep you free and clean [00:31.78] [00:33.28]And now you wear your skin like iron [00:36.09]And your breath as hard as kerosene [00:38.03] [00:39.90]Weren't you mama's only boy [00:42.53]But her favorite one it seems [00:44.78] [00:45.71]She began to cry when you said "Goodbye" [00:48.65] [00:52.15]Sank into your dreams [00:54.21] [00:57.90]Pancho was a bandit boy [00:59.90] [01:00.84]His horse was fast as polished steel [01:03.27] [01:04.40]He wore his gun outside his pants [01:06.60] [01:07.23]For all the honest world to feel [01:09.98] [01:11.10]Pancho met his match you know [01:13.73]On the deserts down in Mexico [01:16.42] [01:16.98]Nobody heard his dyin' words [01:20.14] [01:23.27]But that's the way it goes [01:25.14] [01:28.64]All the federales say [01:30.58] [01:32.02]"They could have had him any day" [01:34.65] [01:35.33]They only let him slip away [01:38.27] [01:40.33]Out of kindness I suppose [01:42.77] [01:46.46]Lefty he can't sing the blues [01:48.64] [01:49.33]All night long like he used to [01:52.21]The dust that Pancho bit down south [01:55.30] [01:56.05]Ended up in lefty's mouth [01:58.43] [01:59.61]The day they laid poor Pancho low [02:01.93] [02:02.99]Lefty split for Ohio [02:05.11] [02:06.36]Where he got the bread to go [02:08.54] [02:11.97]There ain't nobody knows [02:13.49] [02:17.37]All the federales say [02:19.33] [02:20.71]"They could have had him any day" [02:23.08] [02:23.89]We only let him slip away [02:25.72] [02:48.49]The poets tell how Pancho fell [02:50.46] [02:51.65]And lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel [02:53.79] [02:54.53]The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold [02:56.97] [02:58.04]And so the story ends we're told [03:00.41] [03:01.47]Pancho needs your prayers it's true [03:03.78] [03:04.60]But save a few for lefty too [03:06.85] [03:07.91]He only did what he had to do [03:10.22] [03:13.78]And now he's growin' old [03:15.47] [03:18.97]All the federales say [03:21.09] [03:22.34]"We could have had him any day" [03:24.85] [03:25.66]They only let him go so long [03:27.85] [03:30.78]Out of kindness I suppose [03:33.29] [03:36.22]A few old gray federales say [03:38.60] [03:39.85]"Could have had him any day" [03:42.28] [03:43.10]We only let him go so long [03:45.22] [03:48.10]Out of kindness I suppose