Pancho And Lefty

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

Now you were your skin like iron, your breath as hard as kerosene

Weren't your mama's only boy, but her favorite one it seems

She began to cry, when you said goodbye, and sank into your dreams.

Poncho 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

Poncho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico

Nobody heard his dyin' words, oh, but that's the way it goes.

All the Federalis say

We could've 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 Poncho bit down south, ended up in Lefty's mouth

Day they laid poor Poncho low, Lefty split for Ohio

Where he got the bread to go, ain't nobody knows.

All the Federalis say

We could've had him any day

We only let him slip away

out of kindness I suppose.

The poets tell how Poncho fell, and Lefty's living in a cheap hotel

The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold, so the story ends we're told

Poncho needs your prayers, it's true, but save a few for Lefty, too

He only did what he had to do,now, he's growing old.

All the Federalis say

We could've had him any day

We only let him slip away

out of kindness I suppose.

A few Federalis say

We could've had him any day

We only let him go so long

out of kindness I suppose...