[ti:Pancho And Lefty]
[ar:Steve Earle]
[al:Townes]

[00:01.12]Steve Earle - Pancho And Lefty
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[00:09.10]Livin' on the road, my friend
[00:12.96]Was gonna keep you free and clean
[00:17.17]And now you wear your skin like iron
[00:20.98]And your breath as hard as kerosene
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[00:24.94]Weren't you mama's only boy
[00:28.23]But her favorite one, it seems
[00:31.97]She began to cry when you said, "Goodbye"
[00:39.41]Sank into your dreams
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[00:45.55]Pancho was a bandit, boy
[00:50.01]His horse was fast as polished steel
[00:53.87]He wore his gun outside his pants
[00:57.46]For all the honest world to feel
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[01:02.01]Pancho met his match, you know
[01:05.31]On the deserts down in Mexico
[01:09.67]Nobody heard his dyin' words
[01:16.79]But that's the way it goes
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[01:22.91]All the federales say
[01:27.04]"They could have had him any day"
[01:30.96]They only let him slip away
[01:37.03]Out of kindness, I suppose
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[01:44.04]Lefty he can't sing the blues
[01:47.80]All night long like he used to
[01:51.48]The dust that Pancho bit down south
[01:55.58]Ended up in lefty's mouth
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[01:59.99]The day they laid poor Pancho low
[02:03.59]Lefty split for Ohio
[02:07.66]Where he got the bread to go
[02:13.61]There ain't nobody knows
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[02:20.98]All the federales say
[02:25.02]"They could have had him any day"
[02:28.84]We only let him slip away
[02:35.00]Out of kindness, I suppose
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[02:42.12]The poets tell how Pancho fell
[02:46.01]And lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
[02:49.66]The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
[02:53.77]And so the story ends, we're told
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[02:57.97]Pancho needs your prayers, it's true
[03:02.63]But save a few for lefty, too
[03:05.68]He only did what he had to do
[03:11.89]And now he's growin' old
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[03:18.96]All the federales say
[03:23.01]"We could have had him any day"
[03:26.90]They only let him go so long
[03:32.83]Out of kindness, I suppose
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[03:39.56]A few old gray federales say
[03:43.91]"Could have had him any day"
[03:47.82]We only let him go so long
[03:54.59]Out of kindness, I suppose
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