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I'm sure you've heard this song done by Willie and Merle, but they don't come close to the man who wrote it..the late,great Townes Van Zandt..
D x00232
D/C# x40232
D4/B(?) x20032
I also lead into the verse with
e+-----------2--|
b+--2--3--5-----|
g+--------------| then picking out of the D chord, etc.
d+-----------0--|
a+--0--2--4-----|
e+--------------|
Livin' on the road, my friend.....
which is nice for many songs played in D.
Enjoy,
Denny Straussfogel
Pancho and Lefty by Townes Van Zandt
DLivin' on the road, my friend
AWas gonna keep us free and clean
GBut now you wear your skin like iron
And you Dbreath's as D/C#hard as D4/Bkerosene A
GYou weren't your mama's only boy
But her Dfavorite D/C#one, it D4/Bseems
She Dbegan to cry
When you D/C#said D4/Bgood Abye A7
And Gsank into you Bmdreams
(same chords as first verse)
Pancho was a bandit, boys
Rode a horse fast as polished steel
Wore his guns outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel
Pancho met his match, ya know
On the deserts down in Mexico
No one heard his dyin' words
But that's the way it goes
Chorus (words change slightly, each time)
GAnd all the federales say
They Dcould of D/C#had him D4/Bany day
They oDnly lD/C#et him sD4/Blip away A A7
Out of Gkindness, I suppBmose
Now Lefty he can't sing the blues
All night long like he used to
The dust that Pancho bit down South
It ended up in Lefty's mouth
The day they laid old Pancho low
Lefty split for Ohio
Where he got the bread to go
Well there ain't nobody 'knows
But all the federales say
They could of had him any day
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose
Now poets sing how Pancho fell
Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
The desert's quiet and 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 growin' old
And all the federales say
They could of had him any day
They only let him go so long
Out of kindness, I suppose
Yes a few old gray federales still say
They could of had him any day
They only let him go so wrong
Out of kindness, I suppose
All the chords and rythm is the same on all verses and choruses