[ti:Pancho And Lefty] [ar:Townes Van Zandt] [al:A Far Cry from Dead] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pancho And Lefty - Townes Van Zandt [00:06.72]Written by:Townes Van Zandt [00:13.45]Living on the road my friend [00:16.38]Is gonna keep you free and clean [00:19.62]Now you wear your skin like iron [00:22.29]Your breath as hard as kerosene [00:25.54]You weren't your mama's only boy [00:28.38]But her favorite one it seems [00:31.06]She began to cry when you said goodbye [00:36.62]And sank into your dreams [00:42.27]Pancho was a bandit boy [00:44.45]His horse was fast as polished steel [00:48.17]Wore his gun outside his pants [00:50.94]For all the honest world to feel [00:54.39]Pancho met his match you know [00:57.34]On the deserts down in mexico [01:00.12]Nobody heard his dying words [01:05.35]Ah but that's the way it goes [01:10.57]And all the federales say [01:13.77]They could have had him any day [01:16.66]They only let him hand around [01:21.43]Out of kindness I suppose [01:27.07]Lefty he can't sing the blues [01:29.80]All night long like he used to [01:32.58]The dust that pancho bit down south [01:36.05]Ended up in lefty's mouth [01:39.16]The day they laid poor pancho low [01:42.42]Lefty split for ohio [01:45.50]Where he got the bread to go [01:50.37]Oh there ain't nobody knows [01:55.48]And all the federales say [01:58.79]They could have had him any day [02:01.82]They only let him slip away [02:06.72]Out of kindness I suppose [02:40.93]And the poets tell how pancho fell [02:43.88]Lefty's living in cheap hotels [02:46.45]The desert's quiet cleveland's cold [02:50.17]So the story ends we're told [02:53.12]Pancho needs your prayers it's true [02:56.27]Save a few for lefty too [02:58.93]He is it did what he had to do [03:04.29]And now he's growing old [03:09.30]All few the federales say [03:12.77]They could have had him any day [03:15.62]They only let him go so rong [03:20.52]Out of kindness I suppose [03:26.02]Few the federales say [03:28.98]They could have had him any day [03:31.93]They only let him go so rong [03:36.49]Out of kindness I suppose