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Livin' on the road my friend |
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Is gonna keep you free and clean |
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And now you wear your skin like iron |
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And your breath is hard as kerosene |
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Weren't you mamma's only boy? |
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Her favorite one it seems |
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She began to cry when you said |
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Good-bye, sank to your dream |
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Poncho was a bandit boy |
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His horse was fast as polished steel |
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He wore his gun outside his pants |
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For all the honest world to feel |
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Poncho met his match, you know |
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On the deserts down in Mexico |
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Nobody heard his dyin' word |
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Oh but that's the way it goes |
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All the Federales, they say |
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They could have had him any day |
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They only let him slip away |
| [01:51.63][02:48.04][04:10.41][04:30.74] |
Out of kindness I suppose |
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Lefty he can't sing the blues |
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All night long like he used to |
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The dust that Poncho bit down South |
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Ended up in Lefty's mouth |
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|
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The day they lay poor Poncho low |
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Lefty split for Ohio |
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Where he got the bread to go |
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There ain't nobody knows |
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All the Federales they say |
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We could have had him any day |
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We only let him slip away |
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The poets tell how Poncho fell |
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And Lefty's livin' in cheap hotels |
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The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold |
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And so the story ends we're told |
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Poncho needs your prayers, it's true |
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Save a few for Lefty too |
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He only did what he had to do |
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And now he's growin' old |
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They only let him go so long |
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A few gray Federales, they say |
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Could have had him any day |
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We only let him go so long |
