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I was born out west a ways
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Beneath a cloudy sky
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My momma called me Lightning
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She saw rain clouds in my eyes
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My daddy called me in one day
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When I was very young
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Said come and sit beside me boy
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Listen here my son
[Verse]
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When I was just your age he said
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My daddy done me wrong
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And now it's been twenty years
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Ain't seen him in so long
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I remember me the day he left
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That man he seemed so tall
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His words echoed in my head like
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Gunshots off a canyon wall
[Chorus]
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My daddy was a desperado
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Left me footprints hard to follow
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There's some sins son that you just can't atone
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The right path ain't the easiest
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So you best be right with Jesus
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And it's every cowboy's right to roam
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So you take this gun my only son
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And you'll never be alone
[Verse]
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That day my daddy promised
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That he would do his best
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Took granddaddy's gun and locked it
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In a wooden chest
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As the years they passed on by
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He taught me to shoot and ride
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My momma she always called me
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Apple of my daddy's eye
[Verse]
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I thought things'd just go on
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Until that fateful letter came
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With a sad smile something seemed to dawn
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His face didn't seem the same
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Looked like he was in disguise
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Saw the hardness of his lips
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But all I saw through teary eyes
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Were the big irons on his hips
[Bridge]
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With that he just left like his daddy did
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And I never did find out just what that letter said...
[Chorus]
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My daddy was a desperado
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Left me footprints hard to follow
D E
There's some sins son that you just can't atone
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The right path ain't the easiest
A
So you best be right with Jesus
D A B
And it's every cowboy's right to roam
D A
So you take this gun my only son
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And you'll never be alone
[Verse]
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And never sight nor sound
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Of him had momma heard
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She watched for him in plains
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As empty as his word
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Years passed by I stopped searching
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For his silhouette in the sun
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I met a gal and got married
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And then we had us one
[Verse]
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He was a child as perfect
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As God's bluest sky
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With golden hair across his brow
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And his mommas eyes
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Time seemed to stand still
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I thought things couldnt be better
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But that was just until
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The postman brought the letter
[Chorus]
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Your daddy is a desperado
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I left you footprints hard to follow
D E
There's some sins son that I just can't atone
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The right path ain't the easiest
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And I ain't quite right with Jesus
D A B
I'm in trouble now and so, so far from home
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Won't you bring your gun my only son
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Your daddy's all alone
[Verse]
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B good long while I read that letter
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I opened daddy's wooden chest
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The words I read were bitter
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I grabbed the gun and headed west
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B few miles out I surely found
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What I was looking for
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An empty grave that I had dug
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So many years before
[Verse]
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B headstone all by itself
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Out in this barren place
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"Here lies just a desperado"
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Carved in stone upon its face
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I tossed that gun into the ground
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And rode without a word
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I knew that it would not be found
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Before the stone was blurred
[Verse]
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Went right home hugged my wife
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Beneath a cloudy sky
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B lightning bolt split the night
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B sign I can't deny
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I called my son in that day
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When he was very young
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I said come here sit beside me boy
A D E
Listen here my son
[Chorus]
D
My daddy was a desperado
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Left me footprints hard to follow
D E
There's some sins son that you just can't atone
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The right path ain't the easiest
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So you best be right with Jesus
D A B
And it's every cowboy's right to roam
D A
That ain't me son, I'm surely done
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But you'll never be alone
[Outro]
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That ain't me son, I'm surely done
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And you'll never be alone
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