Ab         Fm            Bbm          Fm                  
     Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
            Cm              Fm   Bbm  
     You've been out riding fences for so long now
        Ab                      Fm                     Bbm     Fm 
     Oh you are hard one, but I know that you have got your reason
              Cm                   Fm      Bbm             Ab  Cm
     These things that are pleasing you can't hurt you somehow
                Fm                   Cm
     Don't you draw the cream of diamonds, boy
            Fm                Cm
     She'll beat you if she's able
               Fm             Bbm       Ab
     The queen of hears is always your best bet
     Cm       Fm              Cm
     How it seems to me some fine thing
               Fm             Cm    
     Have been laid upon your table
             Fm             Bbm     Eb
     But you only want the ones you can't

     Desperado, Oh you ain't getting younger
     Your pain and you hunger, they're ruining your home freedom,
     Oh, freedom
            Fm               Bb  Fm
     That's just some people talking
             Cm       Em                 Bbm
     You are prison walking through this world all alone
     Cm              Fm            Cm
     Don't your feet get cold in winter time
         Fm                     Cm
     The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
          Fm                Bbm                 Ab
     It's hard to tell the night time from the day
     Cm     Fm               Cm
     You're loosing all your highs and lows
              Fm                 Cm  Fm   Bbm 
     Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away

     Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
     Come down from your fences open the gate
     It may be raining, but there's a rainbow above you
     You better let somebody love you
     Before it's too late
   
Joseph John