Pancho And Lefty chords by Walker County

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Half-step down

Key: Db

🎸 Intro:

Bm


🎸 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/F#                A
Your breath as hard as kerosene
G

Weren't your mama's only boy
    D                    G
Her favorite one, it seems
Bm                                 A
She began to cry when you said goodbye
    G              Bm
And sank into your dreams


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


🎸 Chorus:
G
All the federales say
     D              G
They coulda had him any day
Bm                      A
They only let him slip away
       G             Bm
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 ol' Pancho low
D               G
Lefty split for Ohio
Bm                        A
Where he got the bread to go
G            Bm
Ain't nobody knows


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


🎸 Verse 4:
D
Poets tell how Pancho fell
A
Lefty's living 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
Bm                      D  A
He only did what he had to do
    G                Bm
And now he's growing old


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