Pancho & Lefty (Townes Van Zandt) - Cover by Stefan

Performed by, audio recording, video recording, and edited by Stefan Zimberoff [e-mail]
Lyrics:
Living on the road my friend
Is gonna keep you free and clean
Now you wear your skin like iron
And your breath as hard as kerosene
You weren't your mama's only son
But her favorite one it seems
She began to cry when you said good - bye
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
borders down in Mexico
and nobody heard his dying words
and that's the way it goes
All the Federales say they
could have had him any day
They only let him slip a - way (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 left for Ohio
An where he got the bread to go
there ain't nobody knows
Well the Poets tell how Pancho fell and
Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
The borders quiet and Cleveland's cold,
So the story ends we're told
Pancho needs your prayers it's true
save a few for Lefty too
He just did what he had to do
and now he's growing old
And all the Federales say
They could have had him any day
We only let him slip a - way
out of kindness I suppose
A few gray Federales say
They could have had him any day
We only only let him go so long
out of of kindness I suppose

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