Chords for Steve Earle - "Pancho and Lefty"

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ Living on the road, my friend, _ is gonna [D] keep you free and [C] clean.
[F] Now you wear your skin like iron, [G]
[Em] your breath's as hard as [C] kerosene.
[G] _ [C] _
[G] Weren't your mama's [F] only boy, but [C] her favorite one it seems.
And [Am] she began to cry when you said [G] goodbye. _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ Sank into [Am] your dream. _ _ _ _
[C] _ Poncho was a bandit boy, _ [G] his horse was fast as polished steel.
[C]
He wore [F] his gun outside his pants [C]
for [G] all the honest [C] world to feel. _
[G] Poncho [F] met his match, you know, [G] on the [C] deserts down in Mexico.
_ [Am]
Nobody heard his dying [G] _ words, _ _ _ [F] but that's the [Am] way it goes.
_ _ _ [C] _
All [F] the _ federales said, [G] _
could [F] aid him any _ [Am] day.
Only let Emmanuel, [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] out of kindness I [Am] suppose,
_ _ _ _ [C] _
_ Lefty can't sing the blues all [G] night long like he used [C] to.
[F]
The dust that Poncho bit down south [C]
ended up and left his mouth.
[F]
The day [G] that they put [F] Poncho [C] low, _ Lefty split through hell.
_ [Am] Where he got the bread [G] to go, _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ ain't [Am] nobody know.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _
All the _ _ [C] federales said, _ could aid him any day.
[Am] _
Only let him go [C] so wrong, [G] _ _ _ [F] out of [C] kindness [Am] I suppose.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ Poets tell how [G] Poncho fell, _ Lefty's living in a cheap [D] hotel.
[F] _
Desert's [G] quiet and Cleveland's cold, _
[Em] so the story [G] ends you're told. _
[F] Poncho needs your prayers, it's [G] true, but save [C] a beautiful lefty dude.
[Am] He only did what he [G] had to do, _
_ _ _ _ [C] now he's growing [E] _ _ _ [Am] old.
_ _ [C] _
All [G] the _ [C] federales said, _ could aid him any day.
[Am] _
Only let him slip [C] _ [G] away, _ _ _ _ [C] out of kindness I [Am] _ [C] suppose.
All the _ _ _ federales said, _ [G] could [C]
aid him any day.
[Am] _ Only let him [G] hang _ around, _ _ out [C] of kindness I [A] suppose. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ Thank you.
_ Thank _ _ you for that. _ _ _ _
Quite simply, one of the best songs ever written, Poncho and Lefty.