tab by jofo 30/5/09 add some hammer on's when playing the Am C G F Am * e------------------------------------------------------- | b------1----------1------1----1---------1-1-1----------- | g------0----------0------2----2---------2-2-2----------- | d------2-----------------3----2---------3/2/0----------- | a------3----------2------------------------------------- | e-----------------3------------------------------------- | C Livin' on the road, my friend G Was gonna keep us free and clean F now you wear your skin like iron C G And your breath's as hard as kerosene F weren't your mama's only boy C But her favorite one, it seems Am * G She began to cry when you said good bye F Am And sank into your dreams (Verse 2) C Pancho was a bandit, boys G horse fast as polished steel F Wore his guns outside his pants C G For all the honest world to feel F Pancho met his match, you know C G On the deserts down in Mexico Am * G Nobody heard his dyin' words F Am But that's the way it goes (Chorus) F And all the federales say C G They could have had him any day Am (* G They only let him hang around F Am Out of kindness, I suppose (Verse 3) C Lefty he can't sing the blues G All night long like he used to F The dust that Pancho bit down South C G It ended up in Lefty's mouth F The day they laid poor Pancho low C G Lefty split for Ohio Am * G Where he got the bread to go F Am ahh there ain't nobody 'knows (Chorus) (Verse 4) C poets tell how Pancho fell G Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel F The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold C G And so the story ends, we're told F Pancho needs your prayers, it's true C G But save a few for Lefty, too Bm * G He only did what he had to do F Am And now he's growin' old (Chorus) (Final Chorus) F Yes a few old gray federales still say C G They could have had him any day Am * G They only let him go so wrong F Am Out of kindness, I suppose
