Anyone else love Pancho and Lefty?

[rumguy]

I just downloaded a killer version of it by Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan...

by Townes Van Zandt

Living on the road my friend,
was gonna keep you free and clean
Now you wear your skin like iron,
Your breath as hard as kerosene.
You weren't your mama's only boy,
but her favorite one it seems
She began to cry when you said goodbye,
When you 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


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

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Funny

I posted an Emmylou Harris thread earlier and didn't put that on it..but her version is my favorite.

[rumguy]

4. never heard her version, but I'm going to look for it

I love emmy lou...

[Kenneth ken]

5. actually I think you did

include that choice. I couldn't pick just one EmmyLou song, myself.

edit - nope, but someone else mentioned it there.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

2. Has potential....

...I think the version Ive heard, as has everyone else, was maybe not the best...one of those songs that could use a new or different interpretation

[Kenneth ken]

3. no WAY

Pancho was a bandit and Lefty sold him out - sounds like they were both Republicans. :evilgrin:

great tune though :D

[rumguy]

6. awww....naw, they were revolutionaries....

lol