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