Pancho & Lefty Lyrics - The Third Three Years - Frank Turner

Living on the road my friend 

Was gonna keep you free and clean 

Now you wear your skin like iron 

Your breath's as hard as kerosene 

You weren't your mama's only boy 

But her favorite one it seems 

She began to cry when you said goodbye 

And sank into your dreams 

Pancho was a bandit boys 

His horse was fast as polished steel 

Wore his gun outside his pants 

For all the honest world to feel 

Pancho met his match you know 

On the deserts down in Mexico 

Nobody heard his dying words 

That's the way it goes 

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All the federales say 

They could have had him any day 

They only let him hang around 

Out of kindness I suppose 

Lefty he can't sing the blues 

All night long like he used to 

The dust that Pancho bit down south 

Ended up in Lefty's mouth 

The day they laid poor Pancho low 

Lefty split for Ohio 

Where he got the bread to go 

There ain't nobody knows 

All the federales say 

They could have had him any day 

They only let him slip away 

Out of kindness I suppose 

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The poets tell how Pancho fell 

Lefty's livin' in a cheap motel 

The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold 

So the story ends we're told 

Pancho needs your prayers it's true, 

But save a few for Lefty too 

He just did what he had to do 

Now he's growing old 

All the federales say 

They could have had him any day 

They only let him hang around 

Out of kindness I suppose 

A few gray federales say 

They could have had him any day 

They only let him go so wrong 

Out of kindness I suppose