Poncho And Lefty Lyrics - Willie Nelson

Living on the road my friend was gonna keep you free and clean 

And now you were your skin like iron and 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 

Poncho 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 

Well poncho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico 

Nobody heard his dying words ah but that's the way it goes 

All the federals say they could've had him any day 

We only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose 

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Lefty he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to 

Well the dust that poncho bit down south ended up in lefty's mouth 

The day they laid poor poncho low lefty split for Ohio 

Where he got the bread to go there ain't nobody knows 

All the federals say they could've had him any day 

We only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose 

The poets tell how poncho fell and lefty's living in a cheap hotel 

The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold and so the story ends we're told 

Poncho 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 federals say they could've had him any day 

We only let him go so long out of kindness I suppose 

A few great federals say could've had him any day 

We only let him go so long out of kindness I suppose