Latest / Heart Banter/Music Covers & Acoustic Guitar / Pancho And Lefty: An Unforgettable Song
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- 0:07Living on the road, my friend gonna keep you free and clean.
- 0:14Now you wear your skin like iron, your breath as hard as kerosene.
- 0:21You weren't your mama's only born but her favorite one it seems she began to cry when you said goodby and second to your dreams.
- 0:40Pancho was a bandit boy.
- 0:44His horse was fast as polished steel.
- 0:47He wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world of fear.
- 0:54Pancho met his match. You know when the desert's down in Mexico and nobody hurt his die Lying words.
- 1:07How about that? It goes call the fed around and say they could have had him any day.
- 1:20They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose Lefty can't sing the blues all night long like he used to.
- 1:39The dusted Poncho bit down south ended up and left his mouth the day they laid poor Poncho low Left his pit for Ohio where he got the bread to go there ain't nobody knows how the federal is way I could have had a many day we only let him get away how the kindness I suppose.
- 2:41Poets tell how Poncho fell left it living in a cheap hotel the desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold so the story ends we're told Poncho need your prayers it's true but save a few for Lefty too.
- 3:02He only did what he had to do now he's growing.
- 3:18All the federally say we could have had him any day we only let him slip away Kind of kindness, I suppose a few grave turn around and say we could have had him any day we only let him go so long out of kindness I suppose.