The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #6370 Message #2233366
Posted By: Amos
10-Jan-08 - 05:11 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Pancho and Lefty (Townes Van Zandt)
Subject: RE: The Ballad of Pancho and Lefty
Ole Hawk, he stayed behind in school, While they taught him not to drool, Until they turned him out, alone, To face the cold inside his bones. He couldn't stand the cold inspections, And grammar, text and style corrections, So he dropped out in Canada, Where no-one knows his past.
The poets sing about the threads That he fucked up and left for dead, And where he lives is bitter cold, And that is how the tale is told. But Little Hawk still gets his say --he writes pedantic posts, by day, They show the latest dusty trace Of the thumb that's up his ass.
A few old professorés claim They could have understood his brain, They only had to run away When the wind began to blow...