Joe(and anyone else out there),

This is probably Townes Van Zandt's most recorded song. My problem with the song is I don't understand it. Perhaps that is why I pointed towards Cowpie.

There are many wonderful, and powerful images.

Pancho was a bandit, boys,
His horse as fast as polished steel,
He wore his guns outside his pants,
For all the honest world to feel.

What a set of lines. There is no doubt here what he's talking about.

I know I am sometimes lyrically dense. I often tend to think a telephone pole is just a telephone pole (and sometimes I like my songs that straight forward).

I know Pancho is Pancho Villa, the Mexican bandit king (or patriot, depending on your point of view). So was Lefty someone I should know?

Entrancing melody as well. So, I understand the attraction of this song, I love to sing along, but I just don't know what it is about. I don't perform songs, that I don't understand, so this one is not in my repetoire.

Roger in Baltimore