Pancho and Lefty
by Townes Van Zandt
🤠 Country
Difficulty
★★☆☆☆
Tuning
Standard
Capo
None
Townes Van Zandt's masterful outlaw country ballad in D, later a hit for Willie and Merle. The gentle picking pattern over D-G-A changes tells one of country music's most poetic and mysterious stories.
e|---2-------2-------3-------3-------0-------0------|
B|-----3-------3-------0-------0-------2-------2----|
G|-------2-------2-------0-------0-------2-------2--|
D|---0-------0-------0-------0-------2-------2------|
A|-------------------2-------2-------0-------0------|
E|-------------------3-------3--------------------------|
e|---2-------2-------3---3---0---0---2---2-----------|
B|-----3-------3-------0-------2-------3---3--------|
G|-------2-------2-------0-------2-------2---2------|
D|---0-------0-------0-------2-------0---0----------|
A|-------------------2-------0-------0--------------|
E|-------------------3------------------------------|