Pancho And Lefty chords by Walker County

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Half-step down

Key: DbDb

🎸 Intro:

B minorBm


🎸 Verse 1:
D MajorD
Living on the road, my friend
A augmentedA
Was gonna keep you free and clean
G+G
Now you wear your skin like iron
   D/F#D/F#        A augmentedA
Your breath as hard as kerosene
G+G
Weren't your mama's only boy
  D MajorD          G+G
Her favorite one, it seems
B minorBm                 A augmentedA
She began to cry when you said goodbye
  G+G       B minorBm
And sank into your dreams

🎸 Verse 2:
D MajorD
Pancho was a bandit boy
  A augmentedA
His horse as fast as polished steel
G+G
He wore his gun outside his pants
  D MajorD       A augmentedA
For all the honest world to feel
G+G
Pancho met his match, you know
    D MajorD        G+G
In the deserts down in Mexico
B minorBm           A augmentedA
Nobody heard his dying words
    G+G         B minorBm
Oh, but that's the way it goes


🎸 Chorus:
G+G
All the federales say
   D MajorD       G+G
They coulda had him any day
B minorBm           A augmentedA
They only let him slip away
    G+G       B minorBm
Out of kindness, I suppose

🎸 Verse 3:
D MajorD
Lefty, he can't sing the blues
A augmentedA
All night long like he used to
G+G
The dust that Pancho bit down south
D MajorD      A augmentedA
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
G+G
The day they laid ol' Pancho low
D MajorD        G+G
Lefty split for Ohio
B minorBm            A augmentedA
Where he got the bread to go
G+G      B minorBm
Ain't nobody knows


🎸 Chorus:
G+G
All the federales say
   D MajorD       G+G
They coulda had him any day
B minorBm           A augmentedA
They only let him slip away
    G+G       B minorBm
Out of kindness, I suppose


🎸 Verse 4:
D MajorD
Poets tell how Pancho fell
A augmentedA
Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
G+G
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
D MajorD      A augmentedA
So the story ends, we're told
G+G
Pancho needs your prayers, it's true
  D MajorD       G+G
But save a few for Lefty too
B minorBm           D MajorD A augmentedA
He only did what he had to do
  G+G        B minorBm
And now he's growing old


Out-🎸 Chorus:
G+G
All the federales say
   D MajorD       G+G
They coulda had him any day
B minorBm           A augmentedA
They only let him slip away
G+G
A augmentedA few good federales say
   D MajorD       G+G
They coulda had him any day
B minorBm           A augmentedA
They only let him go so wrong
    G+G       B minorBm
Out of kindness, I suppose