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