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Pancho and Lefty
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Livin' on the road, my friend
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Was gonna keep you free and clean
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And now you wear your skin like iron
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And your breath as hard as kerosene
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Weren't you mama's only boy
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But her favorite one, it seems
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She began to cry when you said, "Goodbye"
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Sank into your dreams
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Pancho was a bandit, boy
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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
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On the deserts down in Mexico
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Nobody heard his dyin' words
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But that's the way it goes
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All the federales say
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"They could have had him any day"
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They only let him slip away
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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
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There ain't nobody knows
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All the federales say
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"They could have had him any day"
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We only let him slip away
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Out of kindness, I suppose
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The poets tell how Pancho fell
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And lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
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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
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And now he's growin' old
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All the federales say
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"We could have had him any day"
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They only let him go so long
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Out of kindness, I suppose
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A few old gray federales say
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"Could have had him any day"
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We only let him go so long
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Out of kindness, I suppose
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