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 E
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 E
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 E
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 E
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
E 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
E 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
E 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
E lightning bolt split the night
D G A
E 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 E
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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