Pancho And Lefty chords by Ashley Campbell

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
C majorC C/GC/G C majorC C/GC/G (2x)

Verse 1:

C majorC
 Livin' on the road, my friend

G+G
 Was gonna keep us free and clean

FF
 But now you wear your skin like iron

     C majorC          G+G
 And your breath's as hard as kerosene

FF
 You weren't your mama's only boy

    C majorC        FF
But her favorite one, it seems

  A minorAm          FF  C majorC  G+G
She began to cry when you said goodbye

  FF        A minorAm
And sank into your dreams

Verse 2:

C majorC
 Pancho was a bandit, boys

G+G
 Rode a horse fast as polished steel

FF
 Wore his guns outside his pants

   C majorC       G+G
 For all the honest world to feel

FF
 Pancho met his match, you know

    C majorC        FF
 On the deserts down in Mexico

A minorAm        FF C majorC  G+G
 No one heard his dyin' words

   FF          A minorAm
 But that's the way it goes

Chorus:

FF
 All the federales say

   C majorC         FF
 They could have had him any day

   A minorAm      FF  C majorC G+G
 They only let him slip a-way

    FF         A minorAm
 Out of kindness, I suppose

Verse 3:

C majorC
 Lefty he can't sing the blues

 G+G
 All night long like he used to

FF
 The dust that Pancho bit down South

  C majorC      G+G
 It ended up in Lefty's mouth

FF
 The day they laid old Pancho low

 C majorC        G+G
 Lefty split for Ohio

A minorAm        FF   C majorC G+G
 Where he got the bread to go

      FF        A minorAm
 Well there ain't nobody knows

Chorus:

FF
 All the federales say

   C majorC         FF
 They could have had him any day

   A minorAm      FF  C majorC G+G
 They only let him slip a-way

    FF         A minorAm
 Out of kindness, I suppose

Verse 4:

C majorC
 Poets tell how Pancho fell

G+G
 Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel

FF
 The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold

   C majorC      G+G
 And so the story ends, we're told

FF
 Pancho needs your prayers, it's true

   C majorC       G+G
 But save a few for Lefty, too

 A minorAm         FF  C majorC G+G
 He only did what he had to do

   FF         A minorAm
 And now he's growin' old

Chorus:

FF
 All the federales say

   C majorC         FF
 They could have had him any day

   A minorAm      FF  C majorC G+G
 They only let him slip a-way

    FF         A minorAm
 Out of kindness, I suppose

Chorus:

    FF
 Yes a few old gray federales still say

   C majorC         FF
 They could have had him any day

   A minorAm      FF C majorC G+G
 They only let him go so wrong

    FF         A minorAm
 Out of kindness, I suppose