Pancho And Lefty chords by Emmylou Harris

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

Emmylou Harris - Pancho and Lefty

(verse 1)
C majorC              Gue
Living on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean,sa
FF         oi
Now you wear your skin like iron,
   C majorC         G+G
Your breath as hard as kerosene,
FF         oi            C majorC        FF
You weren't your mama's only boy, but her favorite one it seems,
C majorC             FF  C majorC  G+G
She began to cry when you said goodbye,
  FF       A minorAm  G+G - C majorC
And sank into your dreams,

(verse 2)
C majorC            G+G
Pancho was a bandit boys, his horse was fast as polished steel,
FF
He wore his gun outside his pants,
  C majorC            G+G
For all the honest world to feel,
FF         oi         C majorC        FF
Pancho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico,
C majorC        FF C majorC G+G       FF         A minorAm  G+G - FF
Nobody heard his dying words, ah but that's the way it goes,

(chorus)
FF         oi C majorC            FF
All the Federales say they could have had him any day,
C majorC         FF  C majorC G+G    FF       A minorAm - G+G - FF
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose,

(verse 3)
C majorC               G+G
Lefty, he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to,
FF         oi         C majorC      G+G
The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth,
FF         oi        C majorC        FF
The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio,
C majorC        FF   C majorC  G+G    FF       A minorAm - G+G - FF
Where he got the bread to go, there ain't nobody knows,

(chorus)
FF         oi C majorC            FF
All the Federales say they could have had him any day,
C majorC         FF  C majorC G+G    FF       A minorAm  G+G - C majorC
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose,

(verse 4)
C majorC                 G+G
Poets tell how Pancho fell, and Lefty's living 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         oi           C majorC       FF
Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too,
C majorC          FF  C majorC G+G    FF        A minorAm - G+G - FF
He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old,

Chorus)
FF         oi  C majorC            FF
All the Federales say they could have had him any day,
C majorC         FF  C majorC G+G    FF       A minorAm - FF - G+G
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose,
FF         oi   C majorC            FF
A augmentedA few gray Federales say they could have had him any day,
C majorC         FF C majorC G+G       FF      A minorAm
They only let him go so long, out of of kindness, I suppose,