Steve Earle - Pancho & Lefty lyrics

[Verse 1] Living on the road, my friend Was going to keep you free and clean Now you wear your skin like iron Your breath's as hard as kerosene You weren't your mama's only boy But her favourite one it seems She began to cry when you said goodbye And sank into your dreams Pancho was a bandit boys His horse was fast as polished steel 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 dying words That's the way it goes [Chorus] All the federales say Could have had him any day They only let him hang around Out of kindness I suppose [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus] [Verse 3] Poets tell how Pancho fell Lefty's living in a cheap hotel The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold 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 [Chorus] [Outro] A few gray federales say Could have had him any day They only let him hang around Out of kindness I suppose