• Song:

    Pancho And Lefty

  • Artist:

    Steve Earle

  • Album:

    Townes

tab by jofo  30/5/09

add some hammer on's when playing the Am


   C5          G5     F5    A5               *
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------------------------------------- | 

C5
Livin' on the road, my friend
G5
Was gonna keep us free and clean
F5
now you wear your skin like iron
 C5                        G5
And your breath's as hard as kerosene
F5
weren't your mama's only boy
C5
But her favorite one, it seems
A5                     *      G5
She began to cry when you said good bye
F5                   A5
And sank into your dreams
(Verse 2)
C5
Pancho was a bandit, boys
G5
horse fast as polished steel
F5
Wore his guns outside his pants
C5                        G5
For all the honest world to feel
F5
Pancho met his match, you know
C5                    G5
On the deserts down in Mexico
A5                      *     G5
Nobody  heard his dyin' words
F5                   A5
But that's the way it goes
(Chorus)
F5
And all the federales say
C5                           G5
They could have had him any day
A5                (*        G5
They only let him hang around
       F5               A5
Out of kindness, I suppose
(Verse 3)
C5
Lefty he can't sing the blues
G5
All night long like he used to
F5
The dust that Pancho bit down South
C5                    G5
It ended up in Lefty's mouth
F5
The day they laid poor Pancho low
C5                    G5
Lefty split for Ohio
A5                      *           G5
Where he got the bread to go
F5                    A5
ahh there ain't nobody 'knows
(Chorus)
(Verse 4)
C5
poets tell how Pancho fell
G5
Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
F5
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
C5                        G5
And so the story ends, we're told
F5
Pancho needs your prayers, it's true
C5                           G5
But save a few for Lefty, too
B5                          *        G5
He only did what he had to do
F5                   A5
And now he's growin' old
(Chorus)
(Final Chorus)
F5
Yes a few old gray federales still say
C5                           G5
They could have had him any day
A5                     *      G5
They only let him go so wrong
       F5                A5
Out of kindness, I suppose
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