Intro:
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Living on the road, my friend,
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Is gonna keep you free and clean,
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Now you wear your skin like iron,
    D                        A
And your breath's as hard as kerosene.
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You weren't your mama's only boy,
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But her favorite one it seems
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You heard her cry when you said goodbye,
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She sank into your dreams.         B:----3-------------|
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Pancho was a bandit boy,           A:-----------2-4----|
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His horse was fast as polished steel.
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He wore his gun outside his pants
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For all the honest world to feel.
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Pancho met his match, you know,
       D               G
On the deserts down in Mexico.
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Nobody heard his dying words,
G                             Bm  A
Ah, but that's the way it goes. 

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All the Federales say
D                       G
They could have had him any day,
D                 G    D   A
They only let him slip a - way
G                     Bm Riff
  Out of kindness, I suppose

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Lefty, he can't sing the blues
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All night long like he used to.
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The dust that Pancho bit down south
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Ended up in Lefty's mouth.
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The day they laid poor Pancho low,
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Lefty split for Ohio
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Where he got the bread to go,
G                       Bm  A
There ain't nobody knows 

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All the Federales say
D                       G
They could have had him any day,
D                 G    D   A
They only let him slip a - way
G                     Bm
  Out of kindness, I suppose

Solo (3:10)

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The poets tell how Pancho fell,
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And Lefty's living in cheap hotels.
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The desert's quiet, and Cleveland's cold,
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And so the story ends we're told.
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Pancho needs your prayers, it's true,
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But save a few for Lefty too.
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He only did what he had to do,
G                        Bm  A
And now he's growing old

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All the Federales say
D                       G
They could have had him any day,
D                 G    D   A
They only let him slip a - way
G                     Bm A
  Out of kindness, I suppose

G
A few gray Federales say
D                          G
We could have had them any day,
D                 G  D A
We only let 'em go so wrong
G                     Bm
  Out of kindness, I suppose