{"id":786,"date":"2021-05-10T04:54:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=786"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:10:35","slug":"poncho-and-lefty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/poncho-and-lefty\/","title":{"rendered":"Poncho and Lefty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Verse 1]\r\n \r\nD<\/span>\r\nLiving on the road my friend\r\nA<\/span>\r\nWas gonna keep you free and clean\r\nG<\/span>\r\nNow you wear your skin like iron\r\n     D<\/span>                   A<\/span>\r\nYour breath's as hard as kerosene\r\nG<\/span>\r\nYou weren't your mama's only boy\r\n        D<\/span>               G<\/span>\r\nBut her favorite one it seems\r\nBm<\/span>                        G<\/span>        A<\/span>\r\nShe began to cry when you said goodbye\r\n    G<\/span>              Bm<\/span>\r\nAnd sank into your dreams\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nD<\/span>\r\nPancho was a bandit boys\r\nA<\/span>\r\nHis horse was fast as polished steel\r\nG<\/span>\r\nWore his gun outside his pants\r\n   D<\/span>                      A<\/span>\r\nFor all the honest world to feel\r\nG<\/span>\r\nPancho met his match you know\r\n       D<\/span>               G<\/span>\r\nOn the deserts down in Mexico\r\nBm<\/span>                        G<\/span>        A<\/span>\r\nNobody heard his dying words\r\n    G<\/span>              Bm<\/span>\r\nThat's the way it goes\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n \r\nG<\/span>\r\nAll the federales say\r\nD                       G\r\nThey could have had him any day\r\nBm                G     A\r\nThey only let him hang around\r\n       G             Bm\r\nOut of kindness I suppose\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\nD\r\nLefty he can't sing the blues\r\nA\r\nAll night long like he used to\r\nG\r\nThe dust that Pancho bit down south\r\n D            A\r\nEnded up in Lefty's mouth\r\nG\r\nThe day they laid poor Pancho low\r\nD                G\r\nLefty split for Ohio\r\nBm                G        A\r\nWhere he got the bread to go\r\n      G               Bm\r\nThere ain't nobody knows\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n \r\nG\r\nAll the federales say\r\nD                       G\r\nThey could have had him any day\r\nBm                G     A\r\nThey only let him slip away\r\n       G             Bm\r\nOut of kindness I suppose\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\nD\r\nThe poets tell how Pancho fell\r\nA\r\nLefty's livin' in a cheap hotel\r\n  G\r\nThe desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold\r\n   D           A\r\nSo the story ends we're told\r\nG\r\nPancho needs your prayers it's true,\r\n        D                G\r\nBut save a few for Lefty too\r\nBm                   G      A\r\nHe just did what he had to do\r\n   G              Bm\r\nNow he's growing old\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n \r\nG\r\nAll the federales say\r\nD                       G\r\nThey could have had him any day\r\nBm                G     A\r\nThey only let him hang around\r\n       G             Bm\r\nOut of kindness I suppose\r\n \r\nG\r\nAll the federales say\r\nD                       G\r\nThey could have had him any day\r\nBm                G     A\r\nThey only let him hang around\r\n       G             Bm\r\nOut of kindness I suppose\r\n<\/pre>\n
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[Verse 1] D Living on the road my friend A Was gonna keep you free and clean G Now you wear your skin like iron D A Your breath’s as hard as kerosene G You weren’t your mama’s only boy D G But her favorite one it seems Bm G … CLICK TO VIEW SONGPoncho and Lefty<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,126,13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}