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