{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1951259,"song":"Pancho And Lefty","artist":"Ryan Bingham","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1951259-pancho-and-lefty-chords-by-ryan-bingham/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1951259?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":27,"content":"Ryan Bingham version of the late, great Townes Van Zandt song Pancho and Lefty. Bingham performed this song at\r\nhis Amazon Concert: Ryan Bingham Live. Bingham loosely strums and fingerpicks throughout. If you have Amazon \r\nPrime be sure to check out his great concert.\r\nOne note about the chords: this is how Ryan Bingham performed the song in concert, he omitted a chorus at the\r\nend and changed the lyrics of the last chorus, missing is \"a few grey federales say\". Also, I personally like\r\nto add a G in between the Bm and A7 in the verse and chorus. It's up to you. \r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nLivin' on the road my friend[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A7[/ch]\r\nWas gonna keep you free and clean[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow you wear your skin like iron;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nYour breath's as hard as kerosene[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou weren't your momma's only boy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut her favorite one, it seems[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                            [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nShe began to cry when you said goodbye[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd sank into your dreams [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nPancho was a bandit, boys[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A7[/ch]\r\nHis horse was fast as polished steel[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nWore his gun outside his pants[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nFor all the honest world to feel[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nPancho met his match, you know[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOn the deserts down in Mexico[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                      [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nNobody heard his dying words[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThat's the way it goes[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll the federales say[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey could have had him any day[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                      [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThey only let him slip away[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOut of kindness, I suppose[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nLefty, he can't sing the blues[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAll night long like he used to[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe dust that Pancho bit down south[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nEnded up in Lefty's mouth[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe day they laid poor Pancho low[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLefty split for Ohio[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                        [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nWhere he got the bread to go[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThere ain't nobody knows[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe poets tell how Pancho fell;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A7[/ch]\r\nLefty's living in a cheap hotel[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe desert's quiet; Cleveland's cold[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nSo the story ends, we're told[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nPancho needs your prayers, it's true[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut save a few for Lefty, too[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nHe just did what he had to do[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nNow he's growing old[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll the federales say[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey could have had him any day[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                      [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThey only let him go so wrong[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOut of kindness, I suppose[/tab]","plain_text":"Ryan Bingham version of the late, great Townes Van Zandt song Pancho and Lefty. Bingham performed this song at\nhis Amazon Concert: Ryan Bingham Live. Bingham loosely strums and fingerpicks throughout. If you have Amazon \nPrime be sure to check out his great concert.\nOne note about the chords: this is how Ryan Bingham performed the song in concert, he omitted a chorus at the\nend and changed the lyrics of the last chorus, missing is \"a few grey federales say\". Also, I personally like\nto add a G in between the Bm and A7 in the verse and chorus. It's up to you. \n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nBm D A7 G D A7 G D G Bm A G Bm D \n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["G","Bm","A7","D","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}