Biography:
George Ryan Bingham (born March 31, 1981 in Hobbs, New Mexico) is an American folk rock/Americana singer/songwriter. In addition to his solo albums, Bingham recorded two albums as Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses.
Bingham dropped out of school at 17 and was introduced to rodeo bull riding. He learned the emotional aspect of pain early in life, when shuttling between small towns and family members in the hardscrabble ranching communities of West Texas and Hobbs
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Other songs:
- For Anyone's Sake
- The Weary Kind
- Until I'm One With You
- Adventures Of You And Me
- All Choked Up Again
- Bad Case Of Gone
- Big Country Sky
- Boracho Station
- Broken Heart Tattoos
- City Of New Orleans
- Country Roads
- Depression
- Direction Of The Wind
- Dollar A Day
- Dont Wait For Me
- Dylans Hard Rain
- Ever Wonder Why
- Fear And Saturday Night
- For What Its Worth
- Hallelujah
- Hands Of Time
- Hard Times
- Hey Hey Hurray
- Honey
- I Dont Know
- Junky Star
- Long Way From Georgia
- My Diamond Is Too Rough
- Never Far Behind
- No Help From God
- Nobody Knows My Trouble
- Pancho And Lefty
- Roadhouse Blues
- Rollin Highway Blues
- Self
- Situation Station
- Snake Eyes
- Snow Falls In June
- South Side Of Heaven
- Sunrise
- Tell My Mother I Miss Her So
- The Other Side
- The Poet
- The Wandering
- To Live Is To Fly
- Until Im One With You
- Yesterdays Blues
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Ryan Bingham version of the late, great Townes Van Zandt song Pancho and Lefty. Bingham performed this song at
his Amazon Concert: Ryan Bingham Live. Bingham loosely strums and fingerpicks throughout. If you have Amazon
Prime be sure to check out his great concert.
One note about the chords: this is how Ryan Bingham performed the song in concert, he omitted a chorus at the
end and changed the lyrics of the last chorus, missing is "a few grey federales say". Also, I personally like
to add a G in between the Bm and A7 in the verse and chorus. It's up to you.
[Verse]
D
Livin' on the road my friend
A7
Was gonna keep you free and clean
G
Now you wear your skin like iron;
D A7
Your breath's as hard as kerosene
G
You weren't your momma's only boy
D G
But her favorite one, it seems
Bm A7
She began to cry when you said goodbye
G Bm
And sank into your dreams
[Verse]
D
Pancho was a bandit, boys
A7
His horse was fast as polished steel
G
Wore his gun outside his pants
D A7
For all the honest world to feel
G
Pancho met his match, you know
D G
On the deserts down in Mexico
Bm A7
Nobody heard his dying words
G Bm
That's the way it goes
[Chorus]
G
All the federales say
D G
They could have had him any day
Bm A7
They only let him slip away
G Bm
Out of kindness, I suppose
[Verse]
D
Lefty, he can't sing the blues
A7
All night long like he used to
G
The dust that Pancho bit down south
D A7
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
G
The day they laid poor Pancho low
D G
Lefty split for Ohio
Bm A7
Where he got the bread to go
G Bm
There ain't nobody knows
[Instrumental]
Bm D A7 G D A7 G D G Bm A G Bm D
[Verse]
D
The poets tell how Pancho fell;
A7
Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
G
The desert's quiet; Cleveland's cold
D A7
So the story ends, we're told
G
Pancho needs your prayers, it's true
D G
But save a few for Lefty, too
Bm A7
He just did what he had to do
G Bm
Now he's growing old
[Chorus]
G
All the federales say
D G
They could have had him any day
Bm A7
They only let him go so wrong
G Bm
Out of kindness, I suppose
his Amazon Concert: Ryan Bingham Live. Bingham loosely strums and fingerpicks throughout. If you have Amazon
Prime be sure to check out his great concert.
One note about the chords: this is how Ryan Bingham performed the song in concert, he omitted a chorus at the
end and changed the lyrics of the last chorus, missing is "a few grey federales say". Also, I personally like
to add a G in between the Bm and A7 in the verse and chorus. It's up to you.
[Verse]
D
Livin' on the road my friend
A7
Was gonna keep you free and clean
G
Now you wear your skin like iron;
D A7
Your breath's as hard as kerosene
G
You weren't your momma's only boy
D G
But her favorite one, it seems
Bm A7
She began to cry when you said goodbye
G Bm
And sank into your dreams
[Verse]
D
Pancho was a bandit, boys
A7
His horse was fast as polished steel
G
Wore his gun outside his pants
D A7
For all the honest world to feel
G
Pancho met his match, you know
D G
On the deserts down in Mexico
Bm A7
Nobody heard his dying words
G Bm
That's the way it goes
[Chorus]
G
All the federales say
D G
They could have had him any day
Bm A7
They only let him slip away
G Bm
Out of kindness, I suppose
[Verse]
D
Lefty, he can't sing the blues
A7
All night long like he used to
G
The dust that Pancho bit down south
D A7
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
G
The day they laid poor Pancho low
D G
Lefty split for Ohio
Bm A7
Where he got the bread to go
G Bm
There ain't nobody knows
[Instrumental]
Bm D A7 G D A7 G D G Bm A G Bm D
[Verse]
D
The poets tell how Pancho fell;
A7
Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
G
The desert's quiet; Cleveland's cold
D A7
So the story ends, we're told
G
Pancho needs your prayers, it's true
D G
But save a few for Lefty, too
Bm A7
He just did what he had to do
G Bm
Now he's growing old
[Chorus]
G
All the federales say
D G
They could have had him any day
Bm A7
They only let him go so wrong
G Bm
Out of kindness, I suppose
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