The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #6370 Message #2230855
Posted By: GUEST,Chad
07-Jan-08 - 10:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Pancho and Lefty (Townes Van Zandt)
Subject: RE: The Ballad of Pancho and Lefty
Just to add a few thoughts to this discussion, and I am probably wrong. But what if Lefty was a folk singer writing songs about Mexican outlaws (Poncho). But after Poncho dies so does Lefty's dream and he can no longer sing the blues all night long like he used to. So he moves back home to Cleveland back dies off slowly with dust in his mouth the same way Poncho died in the desert.