Pancho And Lefty ukulele

Pancho And Lefty

• C

Intro: C - F (4x) 

(verse 1)  
 C                                               G   
Living on the road, my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean,   
F                     
Now you wear your skin like iron,   
         C                        G   
Your breath as hard as kerosene,   
        F                                                      C                     F   
You weren't your mama's only boy, but her favorite one, it seems,   
            C                            F     C    G   
She began to cry when you said goodbye,   
         F                    Am    G   
And sank into your dreams,   
   
   
(verse 2)   
C                                                G   
Pancho was a bandit, boys, his horse was fast as polished steel,   
       F                                               C                   G  
He wore his gun outside his pants, for all the honest world to feel.  
F                                                              C                   F   
Pancho met his match, you know, on the deserts down in Mexico,   
C                          F  C  G                    F                     Am   G  
Nobody heard his dying words, ah, but that's the way it goes,   
   
F                                  C                        F   
All the Federales say they could have had him any day,   
         C                 F   C G             F                    Am - G  
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose,   
   
   
(verse 3)   
C                                          G   
Lefty, he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to.   
        F                                              C                          G   
The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth,   
        F                                            C                    F   
The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio,   
         C                      F     C   G            F                Am - G  
And where he got the bread to go, there ain't nobody knows,   
   

F                    C                                       F   
All the Federales say they could have had him any day,   
         C                 F  C  G             F                    Am   G - C   
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose,   

   
Chords during solo: Am - F - C - C - F - F - C - Am - C - C - F/C/G - G - F - Am 

   
(verse 4)   
C                                             G   
Poets tell how Pancho fell, and Lefty's living in a cheap hotel.   
        F                                                       C                G  
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold, and so the story ends, we're told.  
F                                                            C                  F   
Pancho needs your prayers, it's true, but save a few for Lefty too.   
      C                       F   C  G           F                   Am - G   
He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old,   
   
   
Chorus)   
F                                       C                          F   
All the Federales say they could have had him any day,   
C                        F    C  G             F                  Am - F - G   
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.   
F                                             C                           F   
A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day.   
C                          F  C  G                   F            Am        
They only let him go so long, out of of kindness, I suppose,   

Ending: Am - F - C 

 

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by Anonimous | TGAcousticLessons

4/27/2014

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