Pancho And Lefty
Song Information
Song Title
Pancho And Lefty
Song Origin
Cover
Written By
Townes Van Zandt
Made Famous By
Merle Haggard
Song Stats
Shortest Version
05:36 (2023-12-08)
Longest Version
05:36 (2023-12-08)
Total Times Played
2
Longest Gap
2023-12-08177 2025-03-07
Longest Streak
Song Charts
Shows with Pancho And Lefty
  • Taft Theatre - Cincinnati, Ohio 2025-03-07
    Set One
    Truck Drivin' Man, Rose In A Garden > , Darlin’ Cory, Translation, Half Moon Night > , I Saw The Light > , Half Moon Night (Reprise) > , Ghost Riders In The Sky (Instrumental), Blame The Train, Cosmic Country Gardens, Lady Justice
    Set Two
    Why You Been Gone So Long > , Cigar Time, Tell Me I’m A Lover 1, Pancho And Lefty > , Travelin' Light, Forgotten Days > , Valhalla, Where Corn Don't Grow > , Lose Your Mind > , Waymore's Blues > , Mystery Train , Sunshine In The Rain (Strange Presence)
    Encore
    Honky Tonk Night Time Man
  • The Mohawk - Austin, Texas 2023-12-08
    Set One
    Rose In A Garden, Devil In A Sleeping Bag, Broadside Ballad > , Hangman's Reel, Hi-Country, Playing Your Game 1, Boogie Man, Tumbling Tumbleweeds > , Dance In The Desert 2, Down By The Riverside 3, Pancho And Lefty (FTP) , Luck Of The Draw > , Sugar Leg Rag
    Encore
    Half Moon Night
Lyrics

Living on the road my friend

Was gonna keep you free and clean

And now you wear your skin like iron

And your breath as hard as kerosene


Weren't your mama'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 dying words

Ah but that's the way it goes


All the Federales say

They could have 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 have had him any day

We only let him slip away

Out of kindness, I suppose


The poets tell how Pancho fell

And Lefty's living 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

We could have had him any day

We only let him go so long

Out of kindness, I suppose


A few gray Federales say

We could have had him any day

We only let him go so long

Out of kindness, I suppose