BF#
Living on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean
E
Now you wear your skin like iron,
BF#
Your breath as hard as kerosene.
EBE
You werenʼt your mamaʼs only boy, but her favorite one it seems
BEBF#
She began to cry when you said goodbye,
EG#m
And sank into your dreams.
G#mF#BBF#
Pancho was a bandit boys, his horse was fast as polished steel
E
He wore his gun outside his pants
BF#
For all the honest world to feel.
EBE
Pancho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico
BEBF#EG#mG#mF#E
Nobody heard his dying words, ah but thatʼs the way it goes.
EBE
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
BEBF#EG#m
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
G#mF#BBF#
Lefty, he canʼt sing the blues all night long like he used to.
EBF#
The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Leftyʼs mouth
EBE
The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio
BEBF#EG#m
Where he got the bread to go, there ainʼt nobody knows
G#mF#EEBE
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
BEBF#EG#mG#mF#B
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
BF#
Poets tell how Pancho fell, and Leftyʼs living in a cheap hotel
E
The desertʼs quiet and Clevelandʼs cold,
BF#
And so the story ends weʼre told
EBE
Pancho needs your prayers itʼs true, but save a few for Lefty too
BEBF#EG#m
He only did what he had to do, and now heʼs growing old
G#mF#EEBE
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
BEBF#EG#m
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
G#mF#EEBE
A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day
BEBF#EG#m
They only let him go so long, out of of kindness, I suppose.