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