Merle Haggard Pancho And Lefty Lyrics

Pancho And Lefty Lyrics

Living on the road my friend

Is gonna keep you free and clean

Now you wear your skin like iron

And your breath is hard as kerosene



You weren't your mama's only boy

But her favorite one it seems

She began to cry when you said goodbye

And sank into your dreams



Pancho was a bandit boy

His horse was fast as polished steel

He wore his gun outside his pants

For all the honest world to feel



Pancho met his match, you know

On the deserts down in Mexico

Nobody heard his dying words

Ah but that's the way it goes



All the Federals say

They could have had him any day

They only let him slip away

Out of kindness, I suppose



Lefty, he can't sing the blues

All night long like he used to

The dust that Pancho bit down south

Ended up in Lefty's mouth



The day they laid poor Pancho low

Lefty split for Ohio

Where he got the bread to go

There ain't nobody knows



All the Federals say

They could have had him any day

They only let him slip away

Out of kindness, I suppose



The poets tell how Pancho fell

And Lefty's living in cheap hotels

The desert's quiet, 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 growing old



All the Federals say

They could have had him any day

They only let him go so long

Out of kindness, I suppose



A few grey Federals say

They could have had him any day

They only let him go so long

Out of kindness, I suppose