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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 5[Intro] C G e|----------------0-----3p0------|--------------------0----------| B|------------1-------1-------0--|--------0-------3-------3---1--| G|----0-----0-------0-------0----|------------0------------------| D|------0h2----------------------|----0-----0-------0-------0----| A|--3-----------3-------3--------|-------------------------------| E|-------------------------------|--3---3-------3-------3--------| 1 & 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a 1 & 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a F Am e|-------------------------------|--------0-------0--------------| B|------1-------1h3----1---------|------------1-------1-------0--| G|---------2--------------2------|----2-----2-------2-------0----| D|------3----3-------3-----------|-------------------------------| A|---0-----------0---------------|--0-----------0-------0h2------| E|-------------------------------|------0------------------------| [Verse] C Living on the road my friend G Is gonna keep you free and clean F Now you wear your skin like iron C G Your breath as hard as kerosene F Weren't your mama's only boy C F But her favorite one it seems Am / F C / G She began to cry when you said good - bye F Am And sank into your dreams C Pancho was a bandit, boys, his G horse was fast as polished steel F He wore his gun outside his pants C G For all the honest world to feel F Pancho met his match you know on the C F borders down in Mexico Am / F C / G Nobody heard his dying words F Am but that's the way it goes [Chorus] F All the Federales say C F they could have had him any day Am / F C / G They only let him slip a - way F Am out of kindness I suppose [Verse] C Lefty he can't sing the blues G all night long like he used to F The dust that Pancho bit down south C G ended up in Lefty's mouth F The day they laid poor Pancho low C F Lefty split for Ohio Am / F C / G Where he got the bread to go F Am there ain't nobody knows [Chorus] F All the Federales say C F they could have had him any day Am / F C / G They only let him slip a - way F Am out of kindness I suppose [Solo] |C - - - / - - - - / G - - - / - - - - / |F - - - / - - - - / Am - - - / - - - - / [Verse] C Poets tell how Pancho fell and G Lefty's living in a cheap hotel F The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold, C G And so the story ends we're told F Pancho needs your prayers it's true but C F save a few for Lefty too Am / F C / G He only did what he had to do F Am and now he's growing old [Outro] F All the Federales say C F they could have had him any day Am / F C / G We only let him slip a - way F Am out of kindness I suppose F A few gray Federales say C F could have had him any day Am / F C / G We only only let him go so long F Am out of of kindness I suppose [Outro] Am