Pancho and Lefty

Song

Pancho and Lefty

Peacemakers

from David Cushman, http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dcushman/guitar.html

Lyrics and chords courtesy of www.semifamous.com

Capo on the second fret

Intro:

Dsus2

e:-----0-----------0-----------0------|
B:-------3---3-------3---3-------3---3|
G:---2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2--| Repeat
D:-0-----------0-----------0----------|
A:------------------------------------|
E:------------------------------------|

D

Living on the road, my friend,

A

Is gonna keep you free and clean,

G

Now you wear your skin like iron,

D A

And your breath's as hard as kerosene.

G

You weren't your mama's only boy,

D G

But her favorite one it seems

D G D A

You heard her cry when you said goodbye,

G                         Bm       e:--2---------------|
She sank into your dreams.         B:----3-------------|

G:------2-----------| Bm Riff

D                                  D:----------------0-|

Pancho was a bandit boy, A:-----------2-4----|

A                                  E:------------------|

His horse was 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

On the deserts down in Mexico.

D G D A

Nobody heard his dying words,

G Bm A

Ah, but that's the way it goes.

G

All the Federales say

D G

They could have had him any day,

D G D A

They only let him slip a - way

G Bm Riff

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 poor Pancho low,

D G

Lefty split for Ohio

D G D A

Where he got the bread to go,

G Bm A

There ain't nobody knows

G

All the Federales say

D G

They could have had him any day,

D G D A

They only let him slip a - way

G Bm

Out of kindness, I suppose

Solo (3:10)

D

The poets tell how Pancho fell,

A

And Lefty's living in cheap hotels.

G

The desert's quiet, and Cleveland's cold,

D A

And so the story ends we're told.

G

Pancho needs your prayers, it's true,

D G

But save a few for Lefty too.

D G D A

He only did what he had to do,

G Bm A

And now he's growing old

G

All the Federales say

D G

They could have had him any day,

D G D A

They only let him slip a - way

G Bm A

Out of kindness, I suppose

G

A few gray Federales say

D G

We could have had them any day,

D G D A

We only let 'em go so wrong

G Bm

Out of kindness, I suppose

G D