The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #6370 Message #2234327
Posted By: Little Hawk
11-Jan-08 - 06:37 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Pancho and Lefty (Townes Van Zandt)
Subject: RE: The Ballad of Pancho and Lefty
Livin on the road my friend, was gonna keep you lean and mean Now you wear size Xtra Large Your hair's slicked back with vaseline You weren't your momma's only boy, but her hungriest it seems She began to cry when you broke the scales And sank right through the floor! Sancho was a football king, he rode a big white limousine He wore his bling outside his vest Which turned the other gangstas green But Sancho met his match you know, on the pavement down in old 'Frisco Nobody heard his dyin' words when he said, "I gots to go!"
And all the LAPDs say, they could've had him any day They only let him slip away, out of blindness I suppose
Hefty he can't dance the blues all night long like he used to do The pavement Sancho bit down south ended up in Hefty's mouth The day they laid poor Sancho low, Hefty split for Kokomo Where he got the kingsize waterbed, there ain't nobody knows
All the LAPDs say, they could've had him any day They only let him slip away out of blindness I suppose
The boys tell how old Sancho fell, and Hefty's livin' in Penthouse "L" Old Frisco's quiet, L.A.'s hot And Sancho's turf's been sold and bought Now Sancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Hefty too He only did what a man must do, and now he's growing old
All the LAPDs say, they could've had him any day They only let him go so long, out of blindness I suppose
I even heard Mark Fuhrman say, "I coulda had him any day!" They only let him get away, out of blindness I suppose