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High, Low & In Between / The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
 
Living on the road my friend,
 
Is gonna keep you free and clean
 
Now you wear your skin like iron,
 
Your breath as hard as kerosene.
 
You werent your mamas 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 thats 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 cant sing the blues
 
All night long like he used to.
 
The dust that pancho bit down south
 
Ended up in leftys mouth
 
The day they laid poor pancho low,
 
Lefty split for ohio
 
Where he got the bread to go,
 
There aint nobody knows
 
The poets tell how pancho fell,
 
And leftys living in cheap hotels
 
The deserts quiet, clevelands cold,
 
And so the story ends were told
 
Pancho needs your prayers its true,
 
But save a few for lefty too
 
He only did what he had to do,
 
And now hes growing old 


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