[00:00.95]Artist:emmylou harris [00:01.70]Songs Title:pancho and lefty [00:03.02] [00:09.77]Livin' on the road, my friend [00:13.20] [00:13.76]Is gonna keep you free and clean [00:16.96] [00:17.91]Now you wear your skin like iron [00:21.99]Your breath as hard as kerosene [00:25.62] [00:26.62]Weren't your mama's only boy [00:30.27]But her favorite one it seems [00:33.28] [00:34.28]She began to cry when you said goodbye [00:38.75] [00:41.94]And sank into your dreams [00:45.82] [00:48.83]Pancho was a bandit boss [00:52.96]His horse as fast as polished steel [00:55.92] [00:56.92]He wore his gun outside his pants [01:00.65]For all the honest world to feel [01:04.41] [01:05.28]Pancho met his match you know [01:08.79]On the deserts down in Mexico [01:11.80] [01:13.01]And nobody heard his dyin' words [01:17.45] [01:19.84]Ah, but that's the way it goes [01:23.53] [01:26.98]All the Federales say [01:30.82]They could'a had him any day [01:34.14] [01:35.14]Only let him slip away [01:38.53] [01:41.47]Out of kindness, I suppose [01:45.23] [01:48.56]Lefty, he can't sing the blues [01:51.69] [01:52.21]All night long like he used to [01:55.60] [01:56.53]The dust that Pancho bit down south [02:00.47]Ended up in Lefty's mouth [02:04.00] [02:04.94]The day they laid poor Pancho low [02:07.78] [02:08.71]Lefty split for Ohio [02:12.07] [02:13.01]Where he got the bread to go [02:16.15] [02:19.72]There ain't nobody 'knows [02:23.87] [02:26.42]All the Federales say [02:29.64] [02:30.51]Could'a had him any day [02:33.33] [02:34.52]We only let him slip away [02:37.59] [02:40.97]Out of kindness, I suppose [02:45.43] [03:15.55]The poets tell how Pancho fell [03:18.99] [03:19.62]And Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel [03:22.38] [03:23.44]The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold [03:27.59]And so the story ends we're told [03:30.79] [03:31.72]Pancho needs your prayers, it's true [03:35.79]But save a few for Lefty too [03:39.13] [03:39.83]He only did what he had to do [03:43.82] [03:46.59]And now he's growin' old [03:49.72] [03:53.35]All the Federales say [03:57.75]Could'a had him any day [04:00.51] [04:01.39]We only let him slip away [04:04.70] [04:07.84]Out of kindness, I suppose [04:11.68] [04:14.94]A few gray Federales say [04:19.20]Could'a had him any day [04:21.84] [04:22.89]We only let him go so long [04:26.89] [04:29.52]Out of kindness, I suppose