Chords:
{t:Pancho and Lefty}
{artist:Emmylou Harris}
{key: C}
Emmylou Harris:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1QiKBxNTw
[C] x4
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[C] Living' on the road my friend, [G] was gonna keep you free and clean
[F] Now you wear your skin like iron, your [C] breath's as hard as [G] kerosene
[F] You weren't your mamma's only boy, but her [C] favourite one it [F] seems
[Am] Began to cry when you [F] said good-bye [C], [G]
And [F] sank into your [Am] dreams {Riff1} [C]
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[C] Pancho was a bandit boys, [G] his horse was fast as polished steel
[F] He wore his gun outside his pants, for [C] all the honest [G] world to feel
[F] Pancho met his match you know, in the [C] desert down in [F] Mexico
And [Am] no one heard his [F] dying [C] words, [G]
But [F] that's the way it [Am] goes {Riff2} [F]
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[F] All the Federales say, we [C] could have had him [F] any day
[Am] We only let him [F] slip a-[G] way, [G], out of [F] kindness I sup-[Am] pose {Riff1} [C]
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[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] ended up in [G] Lefty's mouth
[F] The day they laid poor Pancho low, [C] Lefty split for [F] Ohio
[Am] Where he got the [F] bread to [C] go, [G]
There [F] ain't nobody [Am] knows {Riff2} [F]
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[F] All the Federales say, we [C] could have had him [F] any day
[Am] We only let him [F] slip a-[C] way, [G], out of [F] kindness I sup-[Am] pose {Riff1} [C]
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[C] The poets tell how Pancho fell, [G] Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
[F] The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold, and [C] so the story [G] ends, we're told
[F] Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but [C] save a few for [F] Lefty too
[Am] He only did what he [F] had to [C] do, [G]
And [F] now he's growing [Am] old {Riff2} [F]
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[F] All the Federales say, we [C] could have had him [F] any day
[Am] We only let him [F] slip a-[G] way, [G], out of [F] kindness I sup-[Am] pose {Riff1} [C]
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[F] A few grey Federales say, [C] could have had him [F] any day
[Am] We only let him [F] go [C] so [G] long, [G] out of [F] kindness I sup[Am]pose
{slow} {Riff2} [C]
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Riff 1
{sot}
--[Am]----------------[F]---[G][C]
A--3-2-3-2-|-3-2-0---|-0---0-2--3—
E----------|---------|----------0—
C----------|---------|----------0—
G----------|---------|----------0—
{eot}
Riff 2
{sot}
--[Am]------------------------------------[F]
A--3-2-3-2-|-3-2-0---|-0---0—--|-0-------|-0
E----------|-------3-|---3---3-|---3-0---|-1
C----------|---------|---------|-------2-|-0
G----------|---------|---------|---------|-2
{eot}
