Pancho And Lefty Tab By Van Zandt Townes

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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...
A
Was gonna keep us ...
G
But now you wear your ...
        D           D/C#    D4/B       A
And you breath's as ...
G
You weren't your ....
        D        D/C#    D4/B
But her favorite ...
    D
She began ...
         D/C# D4/B A    A7
When you said ...
    G             Bm
And sank into ...

(same chords as first verse) 
Pancho was a bandit, ....

Chorus (words change slightly, each time) 
G
And all the ...
     D        D/C#    D4/B
They could of ...
      D    D/C#    D4/B     A   A7
They only let him ...
       G               Bm
Out of kindness, ...

Now Lefty he can't sing ....

But all the federales ....

Now poets sing how .....

And all the federales ....

Yes a few old gray ....