Pancho And Lefty Chords

by Townes Van Zandt
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 1st fret
Author calebburns13 [pro] 66.
2 contributors total, last edit on Jun 9, 2023
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Chords

C
G
F
Am

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[Intro]
    C                               G
e|----------------0-----3p0------|--------------------0----------|
B|------------1-------1-------0--|--------0-------3-------3---1--|
G|----0-----0-------0-------0----|------------0------------------|
D|------0h2----------------------|----0-----0-------0-------0----|
A|--3-----------3-------3--------|-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|--3---3-------3-------3--------|
    1 & 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a     1 & 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a
 
    F                               Am
e|-------------------------------|--------0-------0--------------|
B|------1-------1h3----1---------|------------1-------1-------0--|
G|---------2--------------2------|----2-----2-------2-------0----|
D|------3----3-------3-----------|-------------------------------|
A|---0-----------0---------------|--0-----------0-------0h2------|
E|-------------------------------|------0------------------------|
 
[Verse]
C
Living on the road my friend
G
Is gonna keep you free and clean
F
Now you wear your skin like iron
C                      G
Your breath as hard as kerosene
F
Weren't your mama's only boy
         C               F
But her favorite one it seems
    Am                    / F    C /    G
She began to cry when you said good  - bye
    F                Am
And sank into your dreams
 
[Verse]
C
Pancho was a bandit, boys, his
G
horse was fast as polished steel
    F
He wore his gun outside his pants
     C              G
For all the honest world to feel
 F
Pancho met his match you know on the
 C               F
deserts down in Mexico
    Am              / F C / G
And nobody heard his dying words
F                  Am
That's the way it goes
 
[Chorus]
F
And all the Federales say
C                       F
They could have had him any day
Am               / F  C / G
They only let him hang around
        F            Am
out of kindness I suppose
 
[Verse]
C
Well, Lefty he can't sing the blues
G
all night long like he used to
      F
The dust that Pancho bit down south
C            G
ended up in Lefty's mouth
F
The day they laid poor Pancho low
C               F
Lefty split for Ohio
Am                   / F   C / G
And where he got the bread to  go
          F             Am
Ah, there ain't nobody knows
 
[Chorus]
F
And all the Federales say
C                       F
They could have had him any day
Am                / F  C / G
They only let him slip a-way
        F            Am
out of kindness I suppose
 
[Solo]
|C - - - / - - - - / G - - - / - - - - /
|F - - - / - - - - / Am - - - / - - - - /
 
[Verse]
C
Well, the poets tell how Pancho fell and
G
Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
     F
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold,
C                G
And so the story ends we're told
F
Pancho needs your prayers it's true but
  C             F
save a few for Lefty too
Am                 / F  C / G
He just did what he had to do
     F               Am
and now he's growing old
 
[Chorus]
F
A few gray Federales say
C                     F
We could have had him any day
Am             / F C / G
We only let him go so wrong
        F             Am
out of kindness I suppose
 
F
A few gray Federales say
C                       F
They could have had him any day
Am               / F C / G
They only let him go so wrong
           F             Am
out of of kindness I suppose
 
Am
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Pancho And Lefty – Townes Van Zandt
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