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Beargrass
Creek
Pancho & Lefty
(Townes Van Zandt:
JTVZ Music)
now you wear your skin like iron, your
breath's as hard as kerosene.
You weren't your mama's only boy, but
her favorite one, it seems.
She began to cry when you said good
bye and sank into your dreams.
Pancho was a bandit, boys; horse fast
as polished steel.
Wore his guns outside his pants for
all the honest world to feel.
Pancho met his match, you know in the
deserts down in
Nobody heard his dyin' words, but that's the
way it goes
And all the federales say, they could
have had him any day.
They only let him slip away out of
kindness, I suppose
Lefty he can't sing the blues, all
night long like he used to.
The dust that Pancho bit down South,
it ended up in Lefty's mouth.
The day they laid poor Pancho low,
Lefty split for
Where he got the bread to go, ahh
there ain't nobody 'knows
And all the federales say, they could
have had him any day.
They only let him slip away out of
kindness, I suppose
The poets tell how Pancho fell;
Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel.
The desert's quiet and
Pancho needs your prayers, it's true,
but save a few for Lefty, too.
He only did what he had to do, and now
he's growin' old.
And all the federales say, they could
have had him any day.
They only let him slip away out of
kindness, I suppose
A few old gray federales say, we could
have caught him any day
They only let him go so long out of
kindness, I suppose.
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