Pancho And Lefty-Willie Nelson

[00:07.74]Steve Earle - Pancho And Lefty [00:22.86]Livin' on the road, my friend [00:26.46]Was gonna keep you free and clean [00:30.15]And now you wear your skin like iron [00:33.72]And your breath as hard as kerosene [00:35.64]Weren't you mama's only boy [00:40.65]But her favorite one, it seems [00:44.07]She began to cry when you said, "Goodbye" [00:51.81]Sank into your dreams [00:56.85]Pancho was a bandit, boy [01:00.18]His horse was fast as polished steel [01:03.72]He wore his gun outside his pants [01:07.47]For all the honest world to feel [01:11.31]Pancho met his match, you know [01:13.98]On the deserts down in Mexico [01:18.21]Nobody heard his dyin' words [01:24.84]But that's the way it goes [01:31.92]All the federales say [01:32.52]"They could have had him any day" [01:37.56]They only let him slip away [01:43.11]Out of kindness, I suppose [01:49.14]Lefty he can't sing the blues [01:52.14]All night long like he used to [01:56.10]The dust that Pancho bit down south [01:59.73]Ended up in lefty's mouth [02:03.45]The day they laid poor Pancho low [02:06.90]Lefty split for Ohio [02:10.68]Where he got the bread to go [02:16.77]There ain't nobody knows [02:17.85]All the federales say [02:18.27]"They could have had him any day" [02:29.16]We only let him slip away [02:31.71]Out of kindness, I suppose [03:04.11]The poets tell how Pancho fell [03:08.55]And lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel [03:11.16]The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold [03:14.91]And so the story ends, we're told [03:18.72]Pancho needs your prayers, it's true [03:21.87]But save a few for lefty, too [03:25.50]He only did what he had to do [03:27.99]And now he's growin' old [03:32.82]All the federales say [03:33.24]"We could have had him any day" [04:02.55]They only let him go so long [04:04.47]Out of kindness, I suppose [04:08.31]A few old gray federales say [04:08.94]"Could have had him any day" [04:42.03]We only let him go so long [04:43.14]Out of kindness, I suppose