Pancho And Lefty-Townes Van Zandt

[ti:Pancho And Lefty] [ar:Townes Van Zandt] [al:Legend] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.68]Pancho And Lefty - Townes Van Zandt [00:08.82]Living on the road my friend [00:11.23] [00:11.87]Is gonna keep you free and clean [00:14.95] [00:15.77]Now you wear your skin like iron [00:18.41] [00:19.04]Your breath as hard as kerosene [00:21.85] [00:22.98]You weren't your mama's only boy [00:25.97]But her favorite one it seems [00:28.53] [00:29.39]She began to cry when you said goodbye [00:32.62] [00:36.14]And sank into your dreams [00:38.26] [00:41.91]Pancho was a bandit boy [00:44.35] [00:45.41]His horse was fast as polished steel [00:48.23] [00:49.12]He wore his gun outside his pants [00:52.28]For all the honest world to feel [00:55.24] [00:56.31]Pancho met his match you know [00:59.40]On the deserts down in mexico [01:01.92] [01:03.30]Nobody heard his dying words [01:06.61] [01:09.16]Ah but that's the way it goes [01:11.83] [01:15.27]All the federales say [01:17.69] [01:18.91]They could have had him any day [01:21.30] [01:22.43]They only let him hang around [01:25.23] [01:27.99]Out of kindness I suppose [01:30.85] [01:34.29]Lefty he can't sing the blues [01:36.97] [01:37.83]All night long like he used to [01:40.53] [01:41.60]The dust that pancho bit down south [01:45.05]Ended up in lefty's mouth [01:47.61] [01:48.67]The day they laid poor pancho low [01:52.31]Lefty split for ohio [01:54.35] [01:55.61]Where he got the bread to go [01:58.64] [02:01.47]There ain't nobody knows [02:03.71] [02:07.60]All the federales say [02:10.10] [02:11.24]They could have had him any day [02:13.60] [02:14.74]They only let him slip away [02:17.25] [02:20.31]Out of kindness I suppose [02:22.36] [02:26.01]The poets tell how pancho fell [02:28.83] [02:30.08]And lefty's living in cheap hotels [02:32.61] [02:33.50]The desert's quiet cleveland's cold [02:36.22] [02:37.13]And so the story ends we're told [02:39.83] [02:40.88]Pancho needs your prayers it's true [02:43.61] [02:44.38]But save a few for lefty too [02:46.78] [02:47.94]He only did what he had to do [02:50.72] [02:54.00]And now he's growing old [02:56.28] [02:59.56]A few gray federales say [03:02.32] [03:03.24]They could have had him any day [03:05.65] [03:06.84]They only let him go so long [03:10.01] [03:12.46]Out of kindness I suppose [03:14.67] [03:18.11]A few gray federales say [03:21.03] [03:22.10]They could have had him any day [03:24.39] [03:25.67]They only let him go so long [03:28.69] [03:31.34]Out of kindness I suppose