Harris Emmylou - Poncho & Lefty guitar tab

PANCHO AND LEFTY

(written by Townes Van Zandt)

as done by Emmylou Harris on her album Luxury Liner

C G

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

F

Now you wear your skin like iron,

C G

Your breath as hard as kerosene.

F C F

You weren't your mama's only boy, but her favorite one it seems

C F C G

She began to cry when you said goodbye,

F Am Am G C

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

C F C G F Am Am G F

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

C F C G F Am

They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.

Am G C

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

C F C G F Am

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

Am G F

F C F

All the Federales say they could have had him any day

C F C G F Am Am G C

They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.

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

C F C G F Am

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

Am G F

F C F

All the Federales say they could have had him any day

C F C G F Am

They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.

Am G F

F C F

A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day

C F C G F Am

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