Pancho And Lefty Chords
by Townes Van Zandt150,868 views, added to favorites 2,274 times
Difficulty: | beginner |
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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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[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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16 comments

Great! Its what he's playing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprRZ2wFQD4
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Tons of versions of this tune out there, but this is the right one. Nice job.
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great job matches townes’ version perfectly
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