Published: 2012-12-16 19:27 Selection chords: Sofia Davis
Tonality
D
Living on the road, my friend,
A
Is gonna keep you free and clean,
G
Now you wear your skin like iron,
DA
And your breathʼs as hard as kerosene.
G
You werenʼt your mamaʼs only boy,
DG
But her favorite one it seems
DGDA
You heard her cry when you said goodbye,
GBm
She sank into your dreams.
D
Pancho was a bandit boy,
A
His horse was fast as polished steel.
G
He wore his gun outside his pants
DA
For all the honest world to feel.
G
Pancho met his match, you know,
DG
On the deserts down in Mexico.
DGDA
Nobody heard his dying words,
GBmA
Ah, but thatʼs the way it goes.
G
All the Federales say
DG
They could have had him any day,
DGDA
They only let him slip a - way
GBm
Out of kindness, I suppose
D
Lefty, he canʼt sing the blues
A
All night long like he used to.
G
The dust that Pancho bit down south
DA
Ended up in Leftyʼs mouth.
G
The day they laid poor Pancho low,
DG
Lefty split for Ohio
DGDA
Where he got the bread to go,
GBmA
There ainʼt nobody knows
G
All the Federales say
DG
They could have had him any day,
DGDA
They only let him slip a - way
GBm
Out of kindness, I suppose
D
The poets tell how Pancho fell,
A
And Leftyʼs living in cheap hotels.
G
The desertʼs quiet, and Clevelandʼs cold,
DA
And so the story ends weʼre told.
G
Pancho needs your prayers, itʼs true,
DG
But save a few for Lefty too.
DGDA
He only did what he had to do,
GBmA
And now heʼs growing old
G
All the Federales say
DG
They could have had him any day,
DGDA
They only let him slip a - way
GBmA
Out of kindness, I suppose
G
A few gray Federales say
DG
We could have had them any day,
DGDA
We only let ʼem go so wrong
GBm
Out of kindness, I suppose
GD