Subject: CRD: Pancho & Lefty Emmylou Harris Chords/Lyrics From: rickl1@IX.netcom.com (rick) Date: 1998/07/26 Newsgroups: rec.music.artists.emmylou-harris,alt.guitar.tab Emmylou Harris Pancho & Lefty written by Townes Van Zandt Albert Lee guitar/harmony Glen D Hardin piano Mickey Raphael harmonica Hank DeVito steel guitar Emory Gordy bass John Ware drums Ricky Skaggs mandolin Rick Cunha acoustic guitar Brian Ahern acoustic guitar Rodney Crowell harmony http://www.nashville.net/~kate/ C Living on the road my friend G Is gonna keep you free and clean F Now you wear your skin like iron C G Your breath as hard as kerosene F Weren't your mama's only boy C F But her favorite one it seems Am F C G She began to cry when you said goodbye F Am G And sank into your dreams C G Pancho was a bandit boys his horse was fast as polished steel F He wore his gun outside his pants C G For all the honest world to feel F C F Pancho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico Am F C G F Am G Nobody heard his dying words ah but that's the way it goes F C F All the Federales say they could have had him any day Am F C G F Am G They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose C G Lefty he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to F C G The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth F C F The day they laid poor Pancho low Lefty split for Ohio Am F C G F Am G Where he got the bread to go there ain't nobody knows F C F All the Federales say could have had him any day Am F C G F Am G They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose SOLO C G Poets tell how Pancho fell and Lefty's living in a cheap hotel F The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold, C G And so the story ends we're told F C F Pancho needs your prayers it's true but save a few for Lefty too Am F C G F Am G He only did what he had to do and now he's growing old F C F All the Federales say could have had him any day Am F C G F Am G We only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose F C F A few gray Federales say could have had him any day Am F C G F Am We only only let him go so long out of of kindness I suppose From Emmylou Harris "Luxury Liner" Warner Brothers Records 1977 United Artist Music/Columbine Music