Chords for Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty. Heartworn Highways

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Hey, [G] I'll turn it off.
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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.
[Bb] It's out there, [Bm] right?.
[Dbm] [Ab] It ain't out there for him.
It's out there for everybody [Db] else.
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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.
[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.
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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.
[Gb] The dusty Pancho bit down south.
[Db] He did [Ab] up and left his mouth.
[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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[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.
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[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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