Daddy Was a Badass

Alright

Well, daddy was a badass, oil field white trash

Never took nobody's lip

He was a honky-tonk dancer, and even beat cancer

In forty years smokin', just quit

He had Korean pinup, black ink tattooed forearms from the war

He won a purple heart medal, but never heard him peddle

The killin' he did with the corps

So they shipped him on home, his mind all blown

Had nightmares about his past

Well, it's a dang good thing Mama met Daddy

'Cause Daddy was a badass (Yep)

He met Mama on the dance floor in deep East Texas

She was the belle of the ball

He had a old barron's son givin' him a run

For her hand in marriage to call

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

Threatened him with his life, he said

"Hey, little girl, your date had to leave, now you're gonna be my wife"

I guess his country charm turned her on as fifty years has passed

He got the one and only girl in the whole wide world

'Cause Daddy was a badass (Uh-huh)

Well, Daddy made it out of the drilling rig patch

And gamblin' paid for his school

The University of Texas sure got reckless, livin' on eight-ball pool

He had back room, all-night poker games, a pistol by a rotary phone

He was a hot tip handicapper on football, never took a student loan

So he passed with honors by sellin' numbers to everybody in his class

Then he drove back home to old East Texas, well, you know what he was

Yeah

So they had his kids and he built us a house

And he started his company

He made drillin' bits for the oil rigs, and made a truckload of money

Hired all my uncles and the good ol' boys

From back in his roughneck days

Till the shop burned down, lost everything he had

And they went their separate ways

Well, he flew to Vegas, he borrowed five grand

Then he put it on the red and black

He made two hundred G's, he got the business back, y'all, uh

Daddy retired and sold the business, the kids are grown and gone

He said, "Woman, I can't just sit around here

You know I gotta keep bringin' it on"

Climbed on his 1963 Panhead Harley-Davidson

And rode it wide open till the end of the world, off a cliff and into the sun

Well, at his funeral, Mama was cryin', said

"That's the way he shoulda passed"

In a blaze o' glory, just done with the world, man

'Cause Daddy was a badass

'Cause Daddy was a badass

'Cause Daddy was a badass