Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty
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This is so great! I love the way the interviewer giggles through his story. Cheers, yanoftd!
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Willie and Bo loyal friends RIP and friends of me RIP. On my death bed I will remember them. May there fields always be green and the sun always shine. My heart was broken.
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It is great to see our old videos again. Bambi
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@BlueBillyMusic actually, steve earle said it. But it is plagiarized.
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@sandysuicide WTF? You call people assholes because you THINK they've misspelled a word? Truly bizarre. It might have taken you two minutes to search the title and find that a search on "Poncho and Lefty" brings a gazillion references to "Pancho and Lefty".
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@bloodandwhiskey5 PLAGIARISM! Your post was a statement made years ago by Guy Clark
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@yanoftd Sir this is a wonderful video and I thank you for posting it.;Do you know who the young lady is?
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about the pancho/poncho confusion. Both are spanis words, mostly Mexican. A poncho is the article of clothing. Pancho is the shortform for the name Francisco. That's why Pancho Villa is the name used for the revolutionary Francisco Villa.
As for how its supposed to be spelled in this song, who cares, does it really matter, it works anyway he sings it!
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I love it.Only God can make people like this.



jimincairns It's simply an unfortunate misspelling on that 1 album you have. The song appears on many other albums by Townes and is always spelled correctly as 'Pancho'. If you actually listen to this video of Townes speaking about the song you will hear that he says 'Pancho' and talks about the Mexican Pancho Villa as one possible inspiration for the song.
I met in Townes in 1990. He was a great man and I posted this video to honour his memory. It is you who is both mistaken and discourteous.
yanoftd 2 years ago 8