Chords for Emmylou Harris, "Pancho and Lefty"

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_ Living on the road my friend, [G] is gonna keep you clean _ _
[F] Now you wear your skin like iron, [C] your breath as hard as [G] _ kerosene _
[F] _ Weren't your mama's the only boy, [C] but her favorite was [F] seen _
[Am] She began to cry when [C] you [G] said goodbye, _ _ _ _ _ [F] and sank into your [Am] _ dreams _ _ _
[G] _ [C] _ _ Pancho was a bandit [G] boss, his horse was fast as polished steel
[F] He wore his gun outside his [Dm] pants, [C] for all the _ [G] honest world to feel
[F] _ _ Pancho _ _ _ [Dm]
[C] went to the _ deserts [F] down in [Dm] Mexico, [Am] and nobody heard his [F] _ [G] dying words
_ _ _ [F] How the past [Am] away _ grows, _ _ [C] _
_ [F] _ all the fire _ _ _
[C] _ _ could've [F] had him any day
[Am] _ Only [F] let him [C] slip [G] _
away, _ _ _ _ [F] out of kindness [Am] eyes closed _ _ _
_ [Em] _ [C] _ Lefty can't sing the blues, [G] all night long like he used _ [F] to
But does that Pancho bit down [C] south, and bit up in [G] Lefty's mouth
[F] _ Then they laid poor Pancho low, [C] _
left his [F] clipboard on high
[Am] And where he [F] got the [C] [G] bread to go, _ _ _ _ [F] there ain't nobody
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[F] _ All the fire _ _ _
[C] _ could've [F] had him any day _
[Am] We only [F] let [C] him [G] slip away, _ _ _ _ [F] out of kindness [Am] eyes closed
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_ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ poets tell how Pancho [G] fell, Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
_ [F] The desert's quiet and the Cleveland's [C] cold, and so the story [G]
ends and told
[F] _ Pancho needs your prayers, it's [C] true, but save a [F] few for Lefty too
[Am] He only did what he [G] had to do, _ _ _ _ [F] and now he's [Am] grown _ old _
_ _ _ [F] _ All the _ _ _ fire [C] _ could've had [F] him any [Am] day
We only [F] let him [C]
[G] slip away, _ _ _ _ [F] out of kindness [Am] eyes closed _
A _ _ [C] _ [F] few grand better right, _ _ [C] _ could've [F] had him any day
[Am] We only [C] let him go [G] so long, _ _ _ [F] out of kindness [Am] eyes closed _
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