Pancho And Lefty

Livin' on the road, my friend, was gonna keep you free and clean
 But now you wear your skin like iron and your breath as hard as kerosene
 Weren't you momma's only boy, but her favorite one, it seems?
 She began to cry when you said goodbye
 Sank into your dreams
 Pancho was a bandit boy, his horse was fast as polished steel
 He wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to feel
 Pancho met his match, you know, on the deserts down in Mexico
 Nobody heard his dyin' words
 But that's the way it goes
 All the Federales say, they could've 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, ended up in Lefty's mouth
 The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio
 Where he got the bread to go
 There ain't nobody knows
 All the Federales say, they could've had him any day
 We only let him slip away
 Out of kindness, I suppose
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 The boys tell how old Pancho fell, and Lefty's livin' in cheap hotels
 The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold
 And so the story ends, we're told
 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 growing old
 All the Federales say, "We could've had him any day"
 They only let him go so long
 Out of kindness, I suppose
 A few gray Federales say, could've had him any day
 They only let him go so long
 Out of kindness, I suppose