Pancho and Lefty
Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard

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

Now you wear your skin like iron, and your breath is 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

Pancho 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

Pancho met his match, you know, on the deserts down in Mexico

Nobody heard his dying wordsah, but that's the way it goes

All the Federales say

They could have had him any day

They only let him slip away

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 split for Ohio

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

All the Federales say

They could have had him any day

They only let him slip away

Out of kindness, I suppose

The poets tell how Pancho fell, and Lefty's living in cheap hotels

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

Pancho 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

(All the Federales say

They could have had him any day.)

They only go so long

Out of kindness, I suppose

A few grey Federales say

They could have had him any day

They only let him go so long

Out of kindness, I suppose

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