Guitar tab for Pancho And Lefty (var.2) by Willie Nelson free download and read or play online: file .txt, 4.87 kb has 199 views and 0 downloads.
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From: jk13@aol.com (JK13)
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Subject: CRD: Pancho & Lefty/Townes Van Zandt
Date: 11 Jan 1995 17:03:35 -0500
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In response to a recent request. ;-)
Pancho And Lefty
Townes Van Zandt
D A
Living on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean
G
Now you wear your skin like iron,
D A
Your breath as hard as kerosene.
G D G
You weren't your mama's only boy, but her favorite one it seems
D G D A
She began to cry when you said goodbye,
G Bm Bm A D
And sank into your dreams.
D A
Pancho was a bandit boy, his horse was fast as polished steel
G
He wore his gun outside his pants
D A
For all the honest world to feel.
G D G
Pancho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico
D G D A G Bm Bm A G
Nobody heard his dying words, ah but that's the way it goes.
G D G
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
D G D A G Bm
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
Bm A D
D A
Lefty, he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to.
G D A
The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth
G D G
The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio
D G D A G Bm
Where he got the bread to go, there ain't nobody knows
Bm A G
G D G
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
D G D A G Bm Bm A D
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
D A
The boys tell how Pancho fell, and Lefty's living in cheap hotels
G
The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold,
D A
And so the story ends we're told
G D G
Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too
D G D A G Bm
He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old
Bm A G
G D G
All the Federales say they could have had him any day
D G D A G Bm
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
Bm A G
G D G
A few gray Federales say they could have had him any day
D G D A G D G A D
They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
notes on playing:
D G D A
She began to cry when you said goodbye,
Try playing the G D A as:
G D A
|-s-3--2----
|-s-3--3---2
|-s-4--2---2
|----------2
|-----------
|-----------
G Bm Bm A D
And sank into your dreams.
and
G Bm Bm A G
ah but that's the way it goes.
The transitions at the ends of these lines are similar. Play the Bm like:
Bm
|---2-------
|---3------- And then walk the bass line up or down the 5th string
|---4------- to make the change to the final D or G. It's a quick
|---4------- transition.
|---2-------
|-----------
Bm A D Bm A G
|---2------2 |---2------3
|---3------3 |---3------0
|---4------2 |---4------0
|---4------- |---4------0
|---2---4--- |---2---0--2
|----------- |----------3
And throughout the song, as you strum or pick your way merrily along,
try to keep an alternating bass line going, it gives the song a lot
of it's character.
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Submitted by John Kearney (jk13@aol.com)
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jk13@aol.com (John Kearney)
"If we do not change direction, we will end up where we are headed." Lao
Tsu
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