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Daddy Was A Badass by Jesse Dayton
Daddy Was A Badass
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
The whole song is mostly on E, and it sounds fine to just play it on E, but while
playing live he switches
between E and either Em, G7 or G6. I've seen him do all of these options in
different videos. Listen to the
song to figure out the rhythm.
[Verse 1]
E
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
A
the killing he did with the corps
B7
So they shipped him home, his mind all blown
and nightmares about his past
E
Well it’s a damn good thing Momma met daddy..
G E
Cause daddy was a badass
[Verse 2]
E
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
A
Now you’re gonna be my wife
B7
I guess his country charm turned her on
Cause 50 years has passed
E
He got the one and only girl in the whole wide world
G E
Cause daddy was a badass
[Verse 3]
E
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
A
Never took a student loan
B7
So he passed with honours by selling numbers
To everybody in his class
E
And he drove back home to old East Texas
G
Well you know what he was
[Solo]
E Em G A Am A B7 E
[Verse 4]
E
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
A
and they went their separate ways
B7
Well he flew to Vegas, borrowed 5 Grand
and put it on red and black
E
He made 200 G’s… He got the business back y’all
[Verse 5]
E
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
A
Climbed on his 1963 Panhead Harley Davidson
E
And rode it wide open to the end of the world,
A
off a cliff and into the sun
B7
Well at his funeral, Momma was crying,
Saying That’s the way he should’ve passed,
E
In a blaze of glory, just done with the world, man
G E
Cause daddy was a badass
G E
Cause daddy was a badass
G E
Cause daddy was a badass
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