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