Editing Pancho and Lefty (section)

===Legacy===
"Pancho and Lefty" was covered by [[Merle Haggard]] and [[Willie Nelson]]; it was the title track of their duet album ''[[Pancho & Lefty (album)|Pancho & Lefty]]'', and a number one country hit<ref>{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=148}}</ref> that entered the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Grammy Hall of Fame |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame#p |publisher=Grammy Awards |access-date=7 Feb 2022}}</ref>

Members of the [[Western Writers of America]] chose it as the 17th-greatest Western song of all time.<ref name="Top100">{{Cite web |title=The Top 100 Western Songs |author=Western Writers of America |year=2010 |author-link=Western Writers of America |publisher=American Cowboy |url=http://www.americancowboy.com/culture/top-100-western-songs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019002745/http://americancowboy.com/culture/top-100-western-songs |archive-date=October 19, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In June 2004, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked "Pancho and Lefty" 41st on its list of the "100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-country-songs-of-all-time-11200/41-townes-van-zandt-pancho-and-lefty-1972-17040/ |title = 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time - Rolling Stone| magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] | date=June 2014 }}</ref>

In 2021, the original version was listed at #498 on [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2021-09-15|title=The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/|access-date=2021-09-16|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref>