Pancho And Lefty chords by Emmylou Harris

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

Emmylou Harris - Pancho and Lefty

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

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

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

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

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

(verse 4)
C                 G
Poets tell how Pancho fell, and Lefty's living in a cheap hotel,
F
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold,
C        G
And so the story ends we're told,
F         oi           C       F
Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too,
C          F  C G    F        Am - G - F
He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old,

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