Pancho And Lefty chords by Jason Isbell

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice


Verse 1:
D
Living on the road my friend
A
Was gonna keep you free and clean
G
Now you wear your skin like iron
D                        A
Your breath's as hard as kerosene
G
You weren't your mama's only boy
D                       G
But her favorite one it seems
Em9                            G    A
She began to cry when you said goodbye
G                         Em9 A
And sank into your dreams

Verse 2:
D
Pancho was a bandit boys
A
His horse was fast as polished steel
G
Wore his gun outside his pants
D                   A
For all the honest world to feel
G
Pancho met his match you know
D                      G
On the deserts down in Mexico
Em9                    G   A
Nobody heard his dying words
G                      Em9  A
That's the way it goes

Chorus:
G
All the federales say
      D                 G
They could have had him any day
Em9                         A
They only let him slip away
G                         Em9  A
Out of kindness I suppose

Verse 3:
D
Lefty he can't sing the blues
A
All night long like he used to
G
The dust that Pancho bit down south
D           A
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
G
The day they laid poor Pancho low
D               G
Lefty split for Ohio
Em9                          G   A
Where he got the bread to go
G                     Em9    A
There ain't nobody knows

Chorus:
G
All the federales say
      D                  G
They could have had him any day
Em9                         G A
They only let him go so long
G                        Em9 A
Out of kindness I suppose

Verse 4:
D
The poets tell how Pancho fell
A
Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
G
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
D            A
So the story ends we're told
G
Pancho needs your prayers it's true
D                  G
But save a few for Lefty too
Em9                     G   A
He only did what he had to do
G                   Em9   A
Now he's getting old

Chorus:
G
All the federales say
      D                  G
They could have had him any day
Em9                        G A
They only let him slip away
G         Em9              A
Out of kindness I suppose

G
A few gray federales say
D                      A
They could have had him any day
Em9                     G  A
They only let him go so long
G                        Em9 A
Out of kindness I suppose