[Intro]
             
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[Verse]

Living on the 

road my friend

Is gonna keep 

you free and c

lean

Now you wear y

our skin like 

iron
             
Your breath as

         
 hard as keros

ene

Weren't your m

ama's only boy
             
But her favori

           
te one it seem

s
            
She began to c

            / 
ry when you sa

     /   
id good - bye
             
And sank into 

       
your dreams

[Verse]

Pancho was a b

andit, boys, h

is

horse was fast

 as polished s

teel
    
He wore his gu

n outside his 

pants
             
For all the ho

      
nest world to 

feel
 
Pancho met his

 match you kno

w on the
             
deserts down i

   
n Mexico
            
And nobody hea

      /   / 
rd his dying w


ords
             
That's the way

     
 it goes

[Chorus]

And all the Fe

derales say
             
They could hav

          
e had him any 

day
            
They only let 

   /    / 
him hang aroun

d
             
out of kindnes

       
s I suppose

[Verse]

Well, Lefty he

 can't sing th

e blues

all night long

 like he used 

to
      
The dust that 

Pancho bit dow

n south
            
ended up in Le

fty's mouth

The day they l

aid poor Panch

o low
             
Lefty split fo

  
r Ohio
            
And where he g

       /    
ot the bread t

 / 
o  go
             
Ah, there ain'

          
t nobody knows

[Chorus]

And all the Fe

derales say
             
They could hav

          
e had him any 

day
            
They only let 

    /    / 
him slip a-way
             
out of kindnes

       
s I suppose

[Solo]
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[Verse]

Well, the poet

s tell how Pan

cho fell and

Lefty's living

 in a cheap ho

tel
     
The desert's q

uiet and Cleve

land's cold
             
And so the sto

   
ry ends we're 

told

Pancho needs y

our prayers it

's true but
             
save a few for

  
 Lefty too
            
He just did wh

     /    / 
at he had to d


o
             
and now he's g

       
rowing old

[Chorus]

A few gray Fed

erales say
             
We could have 

        
had him any da

y
            
We only let hi

 /   / 
m go so wrong
             
out of kindnes

        
s I suppose


A few gray Fed

erales say
             
They could hav

          
e had him any 

day
            
They only let 

   /   / 
him go so wron

g
             
out of kindnes

        
s I suppose