Townes Van Zandt also appears in a supporting role. I hope I never see them again." Video release Ī music video was released for the song in 1983, depicting Willie Nelson as Pancho, and Merle Haggard as Lefty. so I think maybe that's what it's about, those two guys. You ever heard that song "Pancho and Lefty"? I wrote that', and they looked back around and they looked at each other and started grinning, and it turns out that their squad car, you know their partnership, it was two guys, it was an Anglo and a Hispanic, and it turns out, they're called Pancho and Lefty. In the same interview, Van Zandt recalled, "We got stopped by these two policeman and.they said 'What do you do for a living?', and I said, 'Well, I'm a songwriter', and they both kind of looked around like 'pitiful, pitiful', and so on to that I added, 'I wrote that song "Pancho and Lefty". 'They only let him hang around out of kindness I suppose' and the real Pancho Villa was assassinated." I kinda always knew it wasn't about Pancho Villa, and then somebody told me that Pancho Villa had a buddy whose name in Spanish meant 'Lefty.' But in the song, my song, Pancho gets hung. It came through me and it's a real nice song, and I think, I've finally found out what it's about. In an interview, he recalled, "I realize that I wrote it, but it's hard to take credit for the writing, because it came from out of the blue. A final extended refrain extends the two verse refrain to three.Īlthough the lyrics are not exactly reconcilable with the historic details of the life and death of the famous Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, Van Zandt does not rule out the idea. Following the refrain, the fourth stanza poetizes Pancho's life and appears to call for some sympathy for Lefty's attempt at going home. Lefty grows old in cheap hotels without his friend from Mexico. Lefty then uses the money to "split for" Ohio, trying to return to friends and family who apparently have moved on. The verses of the second stanza introduce Pancho as a Mexican "bandit boy", who "wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to feel." After the refrain, the third stanza tells of Pancho's eventual death in "the deserts down in Mexico" and implies that he was betrayed by his associate Lefty who was paid off by the Mexican Federales. The verses of the first stanza introduce Lefty as a restless young soul who leaves home and his loving mother to seek his fortune south of the border. Subterranean Homesick Blues, Norwegian Wood and Bubblegum Soul: On Dylan, Dope, and the Breakup of the Beatles (tessf.The song is composed as a ballad of four stanzas which use the two-verse refrain: "All the Federales say they could've had him any day/ They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose." The first two stanzas are sung back-to-back with the refrain being sung only after the second stanza.Willie Nelson & Family NYE concert available on special Trigger key chain ().Willie Nelson contributes to “This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark” ().Ramblin’ with the Acoustic Bluesy Tunes of Jacob Miller ().Various Artists: This One’s For Him, A Tribute to Guy Clark (Review) ().Folk Alliance Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented to Bob Dylan, Elizabeth Cotten, and The National Council for Traditional Arts (NCTA) on the opening night of the 2010 International Folk Alliance Conference, Februin Memphis.Willie Nelson sings on ‘This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark’ ().Album Review – Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson – ‘Pancho and Lefty’ ().1st collector for Pancho and Lefty by Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan
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