Delbert Mcclinton - Pancho & Lefty lyrics

Livin' on the road my friend was gonna keep you free and clean Now you wear your skin like iron, 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 desert down in Mexico Nobody heard his dyin' words, ah but that's the way it goes All the Federales say they could have had him any day They only let him hang around out of kindness I suppose Now Lefty, he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to The dust that Pancho bit down south it ended up in Lefty's mouth The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go, ah there ain't nobody knows All the Federales say they could have had him any day They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose Poets tell how Pancho fell, Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold, so the story ends we're told Pancho needs your prayers it's true but save a few for Lefty too He just did what he had to do and now he's growin' old A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day They only let him go so wrong out of kindness I suppose A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day They only let him go so wrong out of kindness I suppose