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Pancho and Lefty
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Merle Haggard
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Living on the road my friend, Was gonna keep you free and clean And now you wear your skin like iron, And your breath as hard as keroseneYou weren't your mama's only boy, But her favorite one it seems She began to cry when you said goodbye, And sank into your dreamsPancho was a bandit boy, His horse was fast as polished steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feelPancho met his match you know On the deserts down in Mexico, Nobody heard his dying words, Ah but that's the way it goesAll the Federales say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness, I supposeLefty, he can't sing the blues All night long like he used to The dust that Pancho bit down south Ended up in Lefty's mouthThe day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go, There ain't nobody knowsAll the Federales say We could have had him any day We only let him slip away Out of kindness, I supposeThe poets tell how Pancho fell, And Lefty's living in cheap hotels The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold, And so the story ends we're toldPancho needs your prayers it's true, But save a few for Lefty too He only did what he had to do, And now he's growing oldAll the Federales say We could have had him any day We only let him go so long Out of kindness, I supposeA few gray Federales say We could have had him any day We only let him go so long Out of kindness, I suppose
Это интересно:(1963 - Наши дни )Отсидев три года в тюрьме за грабеж, где он пел в тюремном ансамбле, Хаггард начал выступать в 1960 году. В 1966 году его песня I'm A Lonesome Fugitive стала хитом номер один.Президент Никсон назвал Хаггарда своим любимым певцом кантри, а президент Рейган, который в то время был губернатором Калифорнии, простил ему все прежние его прегрешения.В период с 1973 по 1976 годы он занимал... продолжение
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