Pancho And Lefty1-crd by Willie Nelson - guitar chords, guitar tabs and lyrics

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	D	A
	Living on the road my friend,	is gonna keep you free and clean

	G
	Now you wear your skin like iron,

	D	A
Your	breath as hard as	kerosene.

	G	D	G
	You weren't your mama's only boy, but her	favorite one it	seems

	D	G	D	A
	She began to cry when you	said	goodb	ye,

	G	Bm	Bm	A	D
And	sank into your	dreams.

	D	A
	Pancho was a bandit boy,	his horse was fast as polished steel

	G
	He wore his gun outside his pants

	D	A
For	all the honest world to	feel.

	G	D	G
	Pancho met his match you know on the	deserts down in	Mexico

	D	G	D	A	G	Bm	Bm	A	G
	Nobody heard his	dyi	ng	words, ah but	that's the way it	goes.

	G	D	G
	All the Federales say	they could have had him	any day

	D	G	D	A	G	Bm
	They only let him	slip	awa	y out of	kindness, I sup	pose.

	Bm	A	D	D	A
				Lefty, he can't sing the blues	all night long like he used to.

	G	D	A
	The dust that Pancho bit down south	ended up in	Lefty's mouth

	G	D	G
	The day they laid poor Pancho low,	Lefty split for	Ohio

	D	G	D	A	G	Bm
	Where he got the	bread	to g	o, there	ain't nobody	knows

	Bm	A	G	G	D	G
				All the Federales say	they could have had him	any day

	D	G	D	A	G	Bm	Bm	A	D
	They only let him	slip	awa	y out of	kindness, I sup	pose.

	D	A
	The boys tell how Pancho fell, and	Lefty's living in cheap hotels

	G
	The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold,

	D	A
	And so the story	ends we're told

	G	D	G
	Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but	save a few for	Lefty too

	D	G	D	A	G	Bm
	He only did what he	had	to	do, and	now he's growing	old

	Bm	A	G	G	D	G
				All the Federales say	they could have had him	any day

	D	G	D	A	G	Bm
	They only let him	slip	awa	y out of	kindness, I sup	pose.

	Bm	A	G	G	D	G
				A few gray Federales say	they could have had him	any day

	D	G	D	A	G	D	G	A	D
	They only let him	slip	awa	y out of	kindness, I sup	pose.

notes on playing:

	D	G	D	A
	She began to cry when you	said	goodb	ye,

Try playing the G D A as:

|-s-3--2----
|-s-3--3---2
|-s-4--2---2
|----------2
|-----------
|-----------

	G	Bm	Bm	A	D
And	sank into your	dreams.

	and	G	Bm	Bm	A	G
	ah but t	hat's the way it g	oes.

The transitions at the ends of these lines are similar. Play the Bm like:

|---2-------
|---3-------      And then walk the bass line up or down the 5th string
|---4-------      to make the change to the final D or G. It's a quick
|---4-------      transition.
|---2-------
|-----------

|---2------2             |---2------3
|---3------3             |---3------0
|---4------2             |---4------0
|---4-------             |---4------0
|---2---4---             |---2---0--2
|-----------             |----------3

And throughout the song, as you strum or pick your way merrily along,

try to keep an alternating bass line going, it gives the song a lot

of it's character.

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Submitted by John Kearney (jk13@aol.com)

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jk13@aol.com (John Kearney)

"If we do not change direction, we will end up where we are headed." Lao

Tsu

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Pancho And Lefty1-crd

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