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WISTFUL ESQUIRE TRIBUTE OF TOWNES VAN ZANDT CLASSIC
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PANCHO AND LEFTY
TOWNES VAN ZANDT

Livin’ on the road my friend was supposed to keep you free and clean
Now you wear your skin like iron and your breath is as hard as kerosene
Weren’t you Mama’s only boy? Her favorite it seems
She began to cry when you said good bye 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 in the desert down in Mexico
And no one heard his dyin’ words. Ah, but that’s the way it goes

All the Federales say we could have had him any day
We only let him hang around 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 well it found its way to Lefty’s mouth
The day they layed poor Pancho low Lefty split for Ohio
Where he got the bread to go well there ain’t nobody knows

All the Federales say we could have had him any day
We only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose

Poets tell how Pancho fell and Lefty’s living in a cheap hotel
The desert’s dry and Clevelands’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 growin’ old

All the Federales say we could have had him any day
We only let him go so long out of kindness I suppose

All the Federales say we could have had him any day
We only let him fade away out of kindness I suppose