[00:24.64]Livin' on the road my friend
[00:28.39]Is gonna keep you free and clean
[00:32.44]And now you wear your skin like iron
[00:36.19]And your breath is hard as kerosene
[00:40.36]Weren't you mamma's only boy?
[00:43.74]Her favorite one it seems
[00:48.29]She began to cry when you said
[00:51.66]Good-bye, sank to your dream
[01:01.78]Poncho was a bandit boy
[01:05.44]His horse was fast as polished steel
[01:09.19]He wore his gun outside his pants
[01:13.06]For all the honest world to feel
[01:17.17]Poncho met his match, you know
[01:20.59]On the deserts down in Mexico
[01:24.66]Nobody heard his dyin' word
[01:31.71]Oh but that's the way it goes
[01:37.95][03:56.43]All the Federales, they say
[01:41.77]They could have had him any day
[01:45.20]They only let him slip away
[01:51.63][02:48.04][04:10.41][04:30.74]Out of kindness I suppose
[01:57.89]Lefty he can't sing the blues
[02:03.06]All night long like he used to
[02:07.44]The dust that Poncho bit down South
[02:10.06]Ended up in Lefty's mouth
[02:12.05]
[02:13.78]The day they lay poor Poncho low
[02:17.22]Lefty split for Ohio
[02:21.59]Where he got the bread to go
[02:28.44]There ain't nobody knows
[02:34.38]All the Federales they say
[02:38.25][04:00.86]We could have had him any day
[02:42.00]We only let him slip away
[02:49.29]The poets tell how Poncho fell
[03:24.52]And Lefty's livin' in cheap hotels
[03:28.52]The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold
[03:32.39]And so the story ends we're told
[03:36.31]Poncho needs your prayers, it's true
[03:40.06]Save a few for Lefty too
[03:43.86]He only did what he had to do
[03:49.04]And now he's growin' old
[04:04.54]They only let him go so long
[04:11.71]A few gray Federales, they say
[04:21.01]Could have had him any day
[04:25.13]We only let him go so long