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