Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty. Heartworn Highways

hey I'll play up play a medley on my hip hey Leo here this written I wrote this about two Mexican bandits that I saw on the TV two weeks after I wrote the song which is out there right got out there made that drip for him out there for everybody else you you living on the road my friend it's gonna keep you free and clean now you wear your skin like iron in your breaths as hard as kerosene you want your mama's oldest son but a favorite one it seems she began to cry when you said goodbye sank into your dreams Pancho was a bandit boys his horse was fast just polished steel worst gun outside his pants be honest world feel aren't your metas match you know on the Border's Dan in Mexico nobody heard his dying words that's the way it goes and all the federales say it could have had him any day they only let him hang around had a kindness eyes left he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to a duster Pancho bit down south and it up and left his mouth a day late for Pancho lo lefty left for Ohio where he got the braids to go all they know buddy and all the federales say they could have had him any day you're only letting him slip away at a kindness I suppose picking and it won't ever heal Rilla poet's tell a punch or fell lefties living in a cheap hotel the borders quiet and Cleveland's cold so the story ends we're told haunt your knees your prayers is true save a few for lefty - he just did what he had to do oh I is growing old all the federales say we could have had him any day the only let im go sarong kindness eyes few gray federales sake could head i need a girl there only let him go sarong now kindness eyes I'm here waiting

Channel: The Record Selector

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Keywords: Townes Van Zandt, Pancho and Lefty, Heartworn Highways, Uncle Seymour, Live, Alternative Country, documentary, nashville

Id: zprRZ2wFQD4

Length: 4min 54sec (294 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 08 2012