add some hammer on's when playing the Am * e-------------------------------------------------------| b------1----------1------1----1---------1-1-1-----------| g------0----------0------2----2---------2-2-2-----------| d------2-----------------3----2---------3/2/0-----------| a------3----------2-------------------------------------| e-----------------3-------------------------------------| Livin' on the road, my friend Was gonna keep us free and clean now you wear your skin like iron And your breath's as hard as kerosene weren't your mama's only boy But her favorite one, it seems * She began to cry when you said good bye And sank into your dreams (Verse 2) Pancho was a bandit, boys horse fast as polished steel Wore his guns 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 But that's the way it goes (Chorus) And all the federales say They could have had him any day (* They only let him hang around Out of kindness, I suppose (Verse 3) Lefty he can't sing the blues All night long like he used to The dust that Pancho bit down South It ended up in Lefty's mouth The day they laid poor Pancho low Lefty split for Ohio * Where he got the bread to go ahh there ain't nobody 'knows (Chorus) (Verse 4) poets tell how Pancho fell Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel The desert's quiet and 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 growin' old (Chorus) (Final Chorus) Yes a few old gray federales still say They could have had him any day * They only let him go so wrong Out of kindness, I suppose