
Date of issue: 31.12.1995
Record label: Capitol Records Nashville
Song language: English
Pancho & Lefty |
Livin on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean |
Now you wear your skin like iron |
Your breath as hard as kerosene |
You weren’t your momma’s only boy, but her favorite one it seems |
She began to cry when you said goodbye |
And sank into your dreams |
Pancho was a bandit boy, his horse was fast as polished steel |
He wore his gun outside his pants |
For all the honest world to feel |
Pancho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico |
Nobody heard his dyin words, ah but that’s the way it goes |
All the Federales say, they could’ve had him any day |
They only let him slip away, out of kindness I suppose |
Lefty he can’t sing the blues all night long like he used to The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty’s mouth |
The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio |
Where he got the bread to go, there ain’t nobody knows |
All the Federales say, they could’ve had him any day |
They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose |
The boys tell how old Pancho fell, and Lefty’s livin in cheap hotels |
The desert’s quiet, Cleveland’s cold |
And so the story ends we’re told |
Pancho needs your prayers it’s true, but save a few for Lefty too |
He only did what he had to do, and now he’s growing old |
All the Federales say, they could’ve had him any day |
They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose |
A few gray Federales say, they could’ve had him any day |
They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose |
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