Tuning:

"Pancho and Lefty" Originally (I think) by Townes Van Zandt, but I'm this is the Willie Nelson cover of it. Great song. Possibly my favorite folk tune. You probably wanna play this song in C: C: 032010 G: 320010 (mute upper strings if needed) F: 003210 (mute top # string if needed) Am: x02210

^CLiving on the road my friend ^GIs gonna keep you free and clean ^FNow you wear your skin like iron ^CYour breath as hard as ker^Gosene ^FWeren't your mama's only boy But her ^Cfavorite one it ^Fseems She ^Ambegan to cry when you ^Fsaid ^Cgoodb^Gye And ^Fsank into your ^Amdreams

^CPancho was a bandit boys ^Ghis horse fast as polished steel ^FHe wore his gun outside his pants For ^Call the honest world to ^Gfeel ^FBut Pancho met his match you know ^Con the deserts down in M^Fexico ^AmNobody heard his ^Fdyi^Cng ^Gwords ^Fah but that's the way it ^Amgoes

CHORUS:

^FAll the Federales say ^Cthey could have had him any ^Fday ^AmThey only let him ^Fslip ^Cawa^Gy ^Fout of kindness I supp^Amose

^CLefty he can't sing the blues ^Gall night long like he used to ^FThe dust that Pancho bit down south ^Cended up in Lefty's m^Gouth ^FWhen they laid poor Pancho low ^CLefty split for O^Fhio ^AmWhere he got the ^Fbread ^Cto ^Ggo ^Fthere ain't nobody k^Amnows

CHORUS

^CPoets tell how Pancho fell ^Gand Lefty's living in a cheap hotel ^FThe desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold, ^CAnd so the story ^Gends we're told ^FPancho needs your prayers it's true ^Cbut save a few for Lefty ^Ftoo ^AmHe only did what he ^Fhad ^Cto ^Gdo ^Fand now he's growing ^Amold

CHORUS And that's pretty much it... I think.

Willie Nelson - Pancho and lefty