Willie Nelson - Essential Willie Nelson (2003) - Pancho & Lefty lyrics

• Livin on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean
  Now you wear your skin like iron
  Your breath as hard as kerosene
  You weren't your momma's only boy, but her favorite one it seems
  She began to cry when you said goodbye
  And 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, ah 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
  They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose
  
  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, they could've had him any day
  They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose
  
  A few gray Federales say, they could've had him any day
  They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose