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