Pancho and Lefty-Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson

[00:00.000] 作词 : T. van Zandt [00:01.000] 作曲 : T. van Zandt [00:24.64]Livin' on the road my friend [00:28.39]Is gonna keep you free and clean [00:32.44]And now you wear your skin like iron [00:36.19]And your breath is hard as kerosene [00:40.36]Weren't you mamma's only boy? [00:43.74]Her favorite one it seems [00:48.29]She began to cry when you said [00:51.66]Good-bye, sank to your dream [01:01.78]Poncho was a bandit boy [01:05.44]His horse was fast as polished steel [01:09.19]He wore his gun outside his pants [01:13.06]For all the honest world to feel [01:17.17]Poncho met his match, you know [01:20.59]On the deserts down in Mexico [01:24.66]Nobody heard his dyin' word [01:31.71]Oh but that's the way it goes [01:37.95][03:56.43]All the Federales, they say [01:41.77]They could have had him any day [01:45.20]They only let him slip away [01:51.63][02:48.04][04:10.41][04:30.74]Out of kindness I suppose [01:57.89]Lefty he can't sing the blues [02:03.06]All night long like he used to [02:07.44]The dust that Poncho bit down South [02:10.06]Ended up in Lefty's mouth [02:12.05] [02:13.78]The day they lay poor Poncho low [02:17.22]Lefty split for Ohio [02:21.59]Where he got the bread to go [02:28.44]There ain't nobody knows [02:34.38]All the Federales they say [02:38.25][04:00.86]We could have had him any day [02:42.00]We only let him slip away [02:49.29]The poets tell how Poncho fell [03:24.52]And Lefty's livin' in cheap hotels [03:28.52]The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold [03:32.39]And so the story ends we're told [03:36.31]Poncho needs your prayers, it's true [03:40.06]Save a few for Lefty too [03:43.86]He only did what he had to do [03:49.04]And now he's growin' old [04:04.54]They only let him go so long [04:11.71]A few gray Federales, they say [04:21.01]Could have had him any day [04:25.13]We only let him go so long