Bm
D
Living on the road, my friend
A
Was gonna keep you free and clean
G
Now you wear your skin like iron
D/F# A
Your breath as hard as kerosene
G
Weren't your mama's only boy
D G
Her favorite one, it seems
Bm A
She began to cry when you said goodbye
G Bm
And sank into your dreams
D
Pancho was a bandit boy
A
His horse as fast as polished steel
G
He wore his gun outside his pants
D A
For all the honest world to feel
G
Pancho met his match, you know
D G
In the deserts down in Mexico
Bm A
Nobody heard his dying words
G Bm
Oh, but that's the way it goes
G
All the federales say
D G
They coulda had him any day
Bm A
They only let him slip away
G Bm
Out of kindness, I suppose
D
Lefty, he can't sing the blues
A
All night long like he used to
G
The dust that Pancho bit down south
D A
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
G
The day they laid ol' Pancho low
D G
Lefty split for Ohio
Bm A
Where he got the bread to go
G Bm
Ain't nobody knows
G
All the federales say
D G
They coulda had him any day
Bm A
They only let him slip away
G Bm
Out of kindness, I suppose
D
Poets tell how Pancho fell
A
Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
G
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
D A
So the story ends, we're told
G
Pancho needs your prayers, it's true
D G
But save a few for Lefty too
Bm D A
He only did what he had to do
G Bm
And now he's growing old
[Out-Chorus]
G
All the federales say
D G
They coulda had him any day
Bm A
They only let him slip away
G
A few good federales say
D G
They coulda had him any day
Bm A
They only let him go so wrong
G Bm
Out of kindness, I suppose
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