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Here's one of my favorite ballads which was written by the inimitable Townes Van 
 Zandt. Emmylou Harris recorded it, as did Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard in a 
 duet (don't ask me why). I first heard it in a coffeehouse at RPI (remember 
 coffeehouses, where people went to hear good music, not get drunk) by Robin and 
 Linda Williams, of later Prairie Home Companion fame. 
 I play this with a D, C#, B bass run transition from the D chord to whatever 
 follows. I've indicated this with the following chord notation.
 	D		x00232
 	D/C#		x40232
 	D4/B(?)	x20032
 
 I also lead into the verse with 
 e+-----------2--
 b+--2--3--5-----
 g+--------------  then picking out of the D chord, etc. 
 d+-----------0--
 a+--0--2--4-----
 e+--------------
                 Livin' on the road, my friend.....
 
 which is nice for many songs played in D. 
 
 Enjoy, 
 Denny Straussfogel 
 
 
 
 		Pancho and Lefty		by Townes Van Zandt
 
 D
 Livin' on the road, my friend 
 A
 Was gonna keep us free and clean 
 G
 But now you wear your skin like iron
         D           D/C#    D4/B       A
 And you breath's as hard as kerosene
 G
 You weren't your mama's only boy
         D        D/C#    D4/B
 But her favorite one, it seems 
     D
 She began to cry
          D/C# D4/B A    A7
 When you said good bye 
     G             Bm
 And sank into you dreams 
 
 (same chords as first verse) 
 Pancho was a bandit, boys 
 Rode a horse fast as polished steel 
 Wore his guns outside his pants 
 For all the honest world to feel
 Pancho met his match, ya know 
 On the deserts down in Mexico 
 No one heard his dyin' words 
 But that's the way it goes
 
 Chorus (words change slightly, each time) 
 G
 And all the federales say 
      D        D/C#    D4/B
 They could of had him any day 
       D    D/C#    D4/B     A   A7
 They only let him slip away 
        G               Bm
 Out of kindness, I suppose
 
 Now 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 old Pancho low 
 Lefty split for Ohio 
 Where he got the bread to go 
 Well there ain't nobody 'knows 
 
 But all the federales say 
 They could of had him any day 
 They only let him slip away 
 Out of kindness, I suppose
 
 Now poets sing 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 
 
 And all the federales say 
 They could of had him any day 
 They only let him go so long 
 Out of kindness, I suppose
 
 Yes a few old gray federales still say 
 They could of had him any day 
 They only let him go so wrong
 Out of kindness, I suppose