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2004年06月23日

その日暮らしは気ままなものさ

ひとり息子じゃないけれど
母さんのお気に入りだった
お前が家を出る時彼女は泣いた
今もそれを夢に見る

パンチョは強盗で、馬を乗り回し
世界と立ち向かうために、銃を持ち歩く
いざこざに巻き込まれたのは

彼の最後の言葉を聞いたものはいない
そんな風に死んでった

＊役人たちは言う
　開かれた世界さ
　優しさに満ちた世界を彼から
　奪い取ったそのあとで

レフティーはもう今は
昔のようにブルースを歌わない
パンチョのこころは彼に受け継がれ
オハイオに渡っていったのはパンチョの葬式のあとのこと
生き延びるために流れ続けてゆく

＊役人たちは言う
　開かれた世界さ
　優しさに満ちた世界を彼から
　奪い取ったそのあとで

パンチョは歌に歌われ

冷たい砂漠の中で
この物語も終わる
パンチョのために祈っておくれ
レフティーのためにもついでに少しは
やるべきことを彼はやっただけさ
そして、年老いてゆく

＊役人たちは言う
　開かれた世界さ
　優しさに満ちた世界を彼から
　奪い取ったそのあとで

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Pancho and Lefty
(Townes Van Zandt)

D
Livin' on the road, my friend
A
Was gonna keep us free and clean
G
But now you wear your skin like iron
D A
And your breath's as hard as kerosene
G
You weren't your mama's only boy
D G
But her favorite one, it seems
Bm
She began to cry
G A
When you said good bye
G Bm
And sank into your dreams

Pancho was a bandit, boys
Rode a horse fast as polished steel
Wore his guns outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel
Pancho met his match, you know
On the deserts down in Mexico
No one heard his dyin' words
But that's the way it goes

G
And all the federales say
D G
They could have had him any day
Bm G A
They only let him slip away
G Bm
Out of kindness, I suppose

Now Lefty he can't sing the blues
All night long like he used to
The dust that Pancho bit down South
It ended up in Lefty's mouth
The day they laid old Pancho low
Lefty split for Ohio
Where he got the bread to go
Well there ain't nobody 'knows

But all the federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose

Now poets sing how Pancho fell
Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
And so the story ends, we're told
Pancho 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 growin' old

And all the federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him go so long (slip away)
Out of kindness, I suppose

Yes a few old gray federales still say
They could have had him any day
They only let him go so wrong
Out of kindness, I suppose

"Pancho and Lefty" performed by Bob Dylan

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