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Pancho And Lefty - Live (2004-Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles)
Merle Haggard
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Willie Nelson
,
Toby Keith
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Livin' on the road, my friend
Was 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
'Cause she began to cry when you said goodbye
And sank into your dreams
Pancho was a bandit, boys
His horse was fast as polished steel
He wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel
But Pancho met his match, you know
In the deserts 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
We 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 breath to go
Ain't nobody knows
All the federales say
They could have had him any day
We only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose
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Oh, it's said that Pancho fell
And 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
We only did what we had to do
Ah, but that's the way it goes
All the federales say
They could have had him any day
We only let him go so long
Out of kindness, I suppose
You bet the federales say
They could have had him any day
We only let him slip along
Out of kindness, I suppose
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