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[00:24.340]Livin' on the road my friend
[00:28.090]Is gonna keep you free and clean
[00:32.140]And now you wear your skin like iron
[00:35.890]And your breath is hard as kerosene
[00:40.070]Weren't you mamma's only boy
[00:43.440]Her favorite one it seems
[00:47.990]She began to cry when you said
[00:51.360]Good-bye  sank to your dream
[01:01.480]Poncho was a bandit boy
[01:05.140]His horse was fast as polished steel
[01:08.890]He wore his gun outside his pants
[01:12.760]For all the honest world to feel
[01:16.870]Poncho met his match  you know
[01:20.290]On the deserts down in Mexico
[01:24.360]Nobody heard his dyin' word
[01:31.410]Oh but that's the way it goes
[01:37.650]All the Federales  they say
[01:41.470]They could have had him any day
[01:44.900]They only let him slip away
[01:51.330]Out of kindness I suppose
[01:57.590]Lefty he can't sing the blues
[02:02.760]All night long like he used to
[02:07.140]The dust that Poncho bit down South
[02:09.760]Ended up in Lefty's mouth
[02:11.750]
[02:13.480]The day they lay poor Poncho low
[02:16.920]Lefty split for Ohio
[02:21.290]Where he got the bread to go
[02:28.140]There ain't nobody knows
[02:34.080]All the Federales they say
[02:37.950]We could have had him any day
[02:41.700]We only let him slip away
[02:47.740]Out of kindness I suppose
[02:48.990]The poets tell how Poncho fell
[03:24.210]And Lefty's livin' in cheap hotels
[03:28.210]The desert's quiet  Cleveland's cold
[03:32.080]And so the story ends we're told
[03:36.000]Poncho needs your prayers  it's true
[03:39.750]Save a few for Lefty too
[03:43.550]He only did what he had to do
[03:48.730]And now he's growin' old
[03:56.120]All the Federales  they say
[04:00.550]We could have had him any day
[04:04.230]They only let him go so long
[04:10.100]Out of kindness I suppose
[04:11.400]A few gray Federales  they say
[04:20.700]Could have had him any day
[04:24.820]We only let him go so long
[04:30.430]Out of kindness I suppose