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Pancho & Lefty
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Delbert McClinton
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Livin' on the road my friend was gonna keep you free and clean
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Now you wear your skin like iron, your breath is hard as kerosene
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You weren't your mama's only boy but her favorite one it seems
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She began to cry when you said goodbye and sank into your dreams
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Pancho was a bandit boy, his horse was fast as polished steel
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He wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to feel
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Pancho met his match you know on the desert down in Mexico
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Nobody heard his dyin' words, ah but that's the way it goes
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All the Federales say they could have had him any day
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They only let him hang around out of kindness I suppose
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Now Lefty, he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to
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The dust that Pancho bit down south it ended up in Lefty's mouth
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The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio
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Where he got the bread to go, ah there ain't nobody knows
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All the Federales say they could have had him any day
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They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose
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Poets tell how Pancho fell, Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
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The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold, so the story ends we're told
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Pancho needs your prayers it's true but save a few for Lefty too
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He just did what he had to do and now he's growin' old
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A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day
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They only let him go so wrong out of kindness I suppose
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A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day
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They only let him go so wrong out of kindness I suppose
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