Chords for Rodney Crowell, Pancho and Lefty

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_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm gonna do this song, _ _ um_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Yes!
_ _ _ _ _ Yeah, I've done _ this_
I've played this song all over the world
and I think the only place that this little trick that I had in mind
didn't work was in China. _
_ _ And mainly in China, they just didn't get what I was driving at.
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But, [N] _ _ _ when it comes to the chorus of this song,
I like to do this song, this song's written by the great Tom Van Dam
and it belongs _ _ _ _ _ _ to the world and everybody, whether they know it or not,
they know [A] this song.
_ So when it comes to the chorus,
_ _ [C] Franklin [F] Tennessee, home of the Americana Music _ Association, _ _ _
[N] open up your hearts and sing this chorus.
Take it on anything.
_ [F] Yeah!
_ We can do that! _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Living on a new road, my friend.
_ [C] _ Gonna keep you free and clean.
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Now you wear your skin right down. _
_ [F] Your breasts as hard [C] as can be seen.
[Bb] You weren't your mama's only boy,
_ but her [F] favorite woman [Bb] seemed.
_ _ [Dm] She began to [C] cry when you said goodbye. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] That's sinking to [Dm] your dreams. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] My drum was a bandit boy.
_ _ _ [C] _ His voice was fast as polished steel.
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Your words were an outsider's dance. _
_ [F] For all the others [C] were all new.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ Until you met his match, you know,
_ [F] on the deserts down [Bb] in Mexico. _
[Dm] And nobody heard [Bb] his [C] _
dying, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] but that's the way [Dm] it goes.
Alright, come on.
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[Dm] Let _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
me, _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ you can't sing the blues.
_ _ [C] _
All I want is to _ [Bb] be
with the sepulchre with the dance of
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] the dead and lame.
The dead and lame, oh, my trouble. _
_ [F] Let this blue [Bb] follow. _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ Where we [Bb] got the [C] bread to _ _ go.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] There ain't nobody [Dm] in the world
that ain't got the hang of it all.
_ [Bb] _ That's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ sinking _ [F] _ to the _ _ [Bb]
vanity _ thing.
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_ [F] _ Boys tell how Pancho felt.
_ _ [C] _ Lefty's living in a cheap hotel.
_ _ [Bb] The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold. _
_ [F] _ So the story [C] ends with love.
_ _ [Bb] _ I don't need your prayers, it's true.
[F] _ Save the few [Bb] for what left to do. _
[Dm] _ He only [F] did [Bb] what he had [C] to do. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] Without _ _ [Dm] you at _ _ all. _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ A prayer I _ say
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_ could [Bb] never fade _ away.
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Mind _ [Dm] _ _ if I join you? _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ A few prayers I _ _ say _
[F] they could not [Bb] have any day.
_ [Dm] They only _ [Bb]
let him go [F] [C] so _ _ alone.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] A kindness I [Dm] suppose. _ _ _
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