I still can picture him
  His hands in his back pockets
  He wasn't much for words
  But when the wise kids made a racket
  He just had to go downtown
  Throw his weight around for starting over
  "Say did you hear I've got a band?"
  Some guys I know from LA
  Put on Rio Grande
  I'll pay you back next Friday
  You know it sure ain't big
  Just some cats I dig
  They said; "They'd do the gig"
  Oh Desperado
  Why don't you spend your life in Colorado?
  Oh restless shadow
  Out in the blue hills
  You're feeling hollow
  Oh El Diablo
  Why did you spend your life in California?
  I should have warned ya’
  No place to go now but falling over
  Some guys can't make it on the run
  Under the gun
  Not for the younger
  Oh Jack Daniel’s I feel your hunger
  I know you did your best
  But you thought that you did not
  I wish that I had known
  Before I heard the last shot
  You know it's not a sin
  That little badge of tin
  Just a momento
  So sad your love remained
  My comrades lost in battle
  The music was a din from London to Seattle
  We all made you play and all our yesterdays
  Are starting over
  Oh Desperado
  Why don't you spend your life in Colorado?
  Oh restless shadow
  Out in the blue hills
  You're feeling hollow
  Oh, El Diablo
  Why did you spend your life in California?
  I should have warned ya’
  No place to go now but falling over