Pancho And Lefty Lyrics - Legend - Willie Nelson

Livin on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean 

Now you wear your skin like iron 

Your breath as hard as kerosene 

You weren't your momma'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 boy, his horse was fast as polished steel 

He 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 dyin words, ah but that's the way it goes 

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All the Federales say, they could've had him any day 

They only let him slip away, 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've had him any day 

They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose 

The boys tell how old Pancho fell, and Lefty's livin in cheap hotels 

The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold 

And so the story ends we're told 

Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too 

He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old 

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All the Federales say, they could've had him any day 

They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose 

A few gray Federales say, they could've had him any day 

They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose