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