Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard...Pancho and Lefty

[sasquatch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxzJAF1BxP4
Livin on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean
Now you wear your skin like iron
Your breath as hard as kerosene
You weren't your momma's only boy, but her favorite one it seems
She began to cry when you said goodbye
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 on the deserts down in Mexico
Nobody heard his dyin words, ah but that's the way it goes

All the Federales say, they could've had him any day
They only let him slip away, 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 ended up in Lefty's mouth
The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio
Where he got the bread to go, there ain't nobody knows

All the Federales say, they could've had him any day
They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose

The boys tell how old Pancho fell, and Lefty's livin in cheap hotels
The desert's quiet, 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 growing old

All the Federales say, they could've had him any day
They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose

A few gray Federales say, they could've had him any day
They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose

:)

[redqueen]

1. Not my favorite TVZ tune

but one of the best for sure.

[cemaphonic]

5. I think I like "To Live is to Fly" the best

Pancho and Lefty is up there though. And Willie and Merle did a good job with their cover of it.

[redqueen]

6. My favorite is Waiting Around to Die

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYkFKNroBVA

[3dogday]

9. I love the Cowboy Junkies version of this song n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Good ole Pancho and Lefty

just because ...

http://www.youtube.com/v/ZvUN7FXbNGA&hl=en&fs=1

[MajorChode]

3. I love folk tunes with a happy ending

Nobody sings 'em like Willie.

[Bake]

4. Gotta be one of the best-produced records in years!

That one is just about perfect.

Bake

[timtom]

7. One of Townes van Zandt's greatest songs!!

[Skittles]

8. Skittles trivia: I knew Townes Van Zandt

In Austin I worked with a gal who roomed with Townes and his wife and child and was over at the house a number of times; babysat for his kid once ")

[Lyric]

10. I've always loved that song.

It reminds me of my Dad; it was one of his favorite songs.