5 Livin' on the road, my friend
7 Was gonna keep us free and clean
9 But now you wear your skin like iron
11 And your breath's as hard as kerosene
13 You weren't your mama's only boy
15 But her favorite one, it seems
19 When you said good bye
21 And sank into your dreams
23 Pancho was a bandit, boys
24 Rode a horse fast as polished steel
25 Wore his guns outside his pants
26 For all the honest world to feel
27 Pancho met his match, you know
28 On the deserts down in Mexico
29 No one heard his dyin' words
30 But that's the way it goes
33 And all the federales say
35 They could have had him any day
37 They only let him slip away
39 Out of kindness, I suppose
41 Now Lefty he can't sing the blues
42 All night long like he used to
43 The dust that Pancho bit down South
44 It ended up in Lefty's mouth
45 The day they laid old Pancho low
47 Where he got the bread to go
48 Well there ain't nobody 'knows
50 But all the federales say
51 They could have had him any day
52 They only let him slip away
53 Out of kindness, I suppose
55 Now poets sing how Pancho fell
56 Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
57 The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
58 And so the story ends, we're told
59 Pancho needs your prayers, it's true
60 But save a few for Lefty, too
61 He only did what he had to do
62 And now he's growin' old
64 And all the federales say
65 They could have had him any day
66 They only let him go so long
67 Out of kindness, I suppose
69 Yes a few old gray federales still say
70 They could have had him any day
71 They only let him go so wrong
72 Out of kindness, I suppose