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I'll play a _ _ _ _ medley of my hit.
Hey,
G I'll turn it off.
I'll turn it on.
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F I _
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Db _ _ _ _
Fm _ _
Db _ _ .
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D wrote this about two Mexican bandits
Bb that I saw on the
Ab TV two weeks after I wrote the song.
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Bb It's out there,
Bm right?.
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Dbm _
Ab It ain't out there for him.
It's out there for everybody
Db else.
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Ab _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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Gb _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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Ab _
Bbm _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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Fm _
Db Living on the road, my friend,
Ab _ gonna keep you free and clean.
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_
Gb _ Now you wear your skin like
Db iron and your heart
Ab is kerosene.
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Gb You weren't your mama's only son,
Db but her favorite one it
Gb seems.
Bb She
Bbm began to cry when you
Ab said goodbye.
_ _ _ _ _
Gb It sank into
Bbm your dreams.
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Fm _
Db _ _ Pancho was a bandit, boys.
Ab His horse was fast as polished steel.
Gb Wore his gun outside his pants
Db for all the
Ab honest world to feel.
Gb _ _ Pancho met his match, you know,
Db on the borders down in
Gb Mexico.
Bbm And nobody heard his
Ab dying words.
_ _ _ _ _
Gb _ .
That's the way
Ab it
Bbm goes.
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_ _
Gb And all the _ federales say
Db they could have had him
Gb any
Bbm day.
They only let him
Gb hang
Ab around _ _ _ out
Gb of kindness, I
Ab Bb suppose.
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Bbm _
Fm _
Db _ Well, lefty, he can't sing the blues
Ab all night long like he used to.
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Gb The dusty Pancho bit down south.
Db He did
Ab up and left his mouth.
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Gb The day they laid poor Pancho
Db low, _ lefty left for _
Gb.
Ohio.
Ab _
Bb Now where he got the
Gb bread
F Ab to go, _ _ _ _ _
Gb oh, that ain't
Ab nobody
Bbm knows.
_ _ And _
Fm _
Gb _ all the _ federales
Ab say
Db they could have
Ab had him
Gb any
Ab day.
Bbm They only let him
Fm slip
Ab away _ _ _ _ out
Gb of kindness,
Ab I
Bbm suppose.
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Fm _
Db And it won't ever heal.
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Ab _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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Gb _ _ _ _ _
Ebm _ .
Gb _
Ab _
Bbm _ _ _ _ _ _ .
C _
Db _ Well, the poets tell how Pancho
Ab fell.
_ Lefty's living in a cheap hotel.
_
Gb The border's quiet and Cleveland's
Ebm cold.
Db _ So the story
Ab ends, we're told.
Gb _ _ Pancho needs your prayers, it's true.
Db Save a few
Gb for lefty too.
Ab Bbm He just did what he had,
Ab _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _
Gb oh, and now he's
Ab growing
Bbm _ old.
_ _ _ .
Fm _ _
Gb And all the federales say
Db they could have
Gb had him any day.
Ab _
Bbm They only let him
Ab go so wrong _ _ out
Gb of
Ebm kindness, I
Ab suppose.
Bbm _ _ _ A _
Fm _
Gb _ few gray _ federales
Ab say
Db they could have
Gb had him any day.
Ab _
Bbm They only let
Db him go
Ab so wrong _ out _
Gb of kindness,
Ab I
Bb suppose.
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Ab _
Bbm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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