Daddy Was A Badass chords by Jesse Dayton

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
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Well, daddy was a badass, oil field white trash

Never took nobody’s lip

He was a honky tonk dancer, even beat cancer

Forty years smoking just quit

He had Korean pin-up black-ink tattooed

forearms from the war

He won a purple heart medal, never heard him peddle
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the killing he did with the corps
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So they shipped him home, his mind all blown

and nightmares about his past
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Well it’s a damn good thing Momma met daddy..
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Cause daddy was a badass

Verse 2:
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He met Momma on the dancefloor in deep east Texas

She was the belle of the ball

He had an oil baron’s son giving him a run

For her hand in marriage to call

So they took the rich kid to the back of the bar

And threatened him with his life

He said hey little girl your date had to leave
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Now you’re gonna be my wife
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I guess his country charm turned her on

Cause 50 years has passed
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He got the one and only girl in the whole wide world
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Cause daddy was a badass

Verse 3:
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Well Daddy made it out of the drilling rig patch

And gambling paid for his school

The university of Texas sure got reckless

Living on 8 ball pool

He held back room all night poker games

A pistol by a rotary phone

He was a hot tip handycapper on football
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Never took a student loan
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So he passed with honours by selling numbers

To everybody in his class
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And he drove back home to old East Texas
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Well you know what he was

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Verse 4:
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So they had us kids and he built us a house

and he started his company

He made drilling bits for the oil rigs

and made a truck load of money

Hired all of my uncles and the good ol boys

from back in his roughneck days

Till his shop burned down, he lost everything he had
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and they went their separate ways
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Well he flew to Vegas, borrowed 5 Grand

and put it on red and black
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He made 200 G’s… He got the business back y’all

Verse 5:
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Daddy retired, sold the business

the kids have grown and gone

He said woman i can't just sit around here

you know i gotta keep bringing it on
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Climbed on his 1963 Panhead Harley Davidson
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And rode it wide open to the end of the world,
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off a cliff and into the sun
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Well at his funeral, Momma was crying,

Saying That’s the way he should’ve passed,
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In a blaze of glory, just done with the world, man
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Cause daddy was a badass
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Cause daddy was a badass
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Cause daddy was a badass