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
C
Said come and sit beside me boy
C F G
Listen here my son
[Verse]
G
When I was just your age he said
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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
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That man he seemed so tall
C
His words echoed in my head like
C F G
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
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
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
C F G
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
C F G
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
F
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
F
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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