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Hoyt Axton - Poncho & Lefty Lyrics

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Livin' on the road my friend
  • Is gonna make you free and clean
  • And now you wear your skin like iron
  • Your breath is hard as kerosene
  • Weren't you mamma's only boy?
  • But her favorite one it seems
  • She began to cry when you said, goodbye
  • And it sank you to your dream
  • Poncho was a bandit beau
  • His horse was fast as polished steel
  • He wore his gun outside his clothes
  • For all the honest world to see
  • Poncho met his match you know
  • On the desert down in Mexico
  • No one heard his dyin' word
  • But that's the way it goes
  • And all the Federales, they 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 do
  • The dust that Poncho bit down south
  • Ended up in Lefty's mouth
  • The day, they lay poor Poncho low
  • Lefty split for Ohio
  • Where he got the bread to go
  • Well, there ain't nobody knows
  • Poets tell how Poncho fell
  • And Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
  • The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold
  • So the story ends I'm told
  • Poncho 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 a few gray Federales say
  • We could have had him any day
  • They only let him slip away
  • Out of kindness I suppose
  • Said a few gray Federales say
  • We could have had him any day
  • We only let him go so long
  • Out of kindness I suppose

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