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Pancho & Lefty
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Emmylou Harris
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(Townes van Zandt)
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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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Now you wear skin like iron
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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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She began to cry when you said goodbye
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And sank into your dreams
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Pancho was a bandit, boys
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His horse was fast as polished steel
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Wore his gun outside his pants
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For all the honest world to feel
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Well, Pancho met his match you know
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On the deserts down in Mexico
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And nobody heard his dyin' words
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Ah but that's the way it goes
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All the Federales say
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Could of had him any day
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Only let him any day
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Hang around
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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 gop
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There ain't nobody knows
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Well, the poets tell how Pancho fell
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And Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
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The dessert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
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So the story end's, we're told
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Pancho needs your prayer's it's true
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But save a few for Lefty too
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He just did what he had to do
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And now he's growin' old
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A few gray Federales say
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Could have had him any day
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Only let him go so long
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Out of kindness I suppose
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