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"Desperado"
Song by The Eagles
Album	Desperado
Released	April 17, 1973
Recorded	Early 1973
Genre	Rock, Country, Bluegrass
Length	3:33
Label	Asylum
Writer	Glenn Frey and Don Henley
Producer	Glyn Johns
Desperado track listing
Tequila Sunrise (4) "Desperado" (5) Certain Kind of Fool (6)

"Desperado" is a song by the rock-country band Eagles, written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley. It first appeared on the 1973 album Desperado, and has later appeared on numerous compilation albums.

Accompanied by Glenn Frey on piano, the lead vocalist, Don Henley, begs the subject of the song, a "desperado", to return home, and tells him that the things he enjoys doing will hurt him eventually.

While this is one of the Eagles' signature songs, it was never released as a single. "Desperado" was voted #494 in the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

• Linda Ronstadt - on her 1973 album Don't Cry Now
• The Carpenters - on their 1975 album Horizon
• Judy Collins - on her 1979 album Hard Times for Lovers
• Chris Ledoux - on his 1982 album Used To Want To Be A Cowboy
• Clint Black - on an Eagles tribute album involving various modern country artists.
• Ken Hirai - B-side of hit single "Hitomi wo Tojite".
• Johnny Cash - on his 2002 album American IV: The Man Comes Around
• The Dead - played on their 2004 summer tour, with Warren Haynes on lead vocal. They debuted the song at Deer Creek Music Center in Noblesville, IN. on 7.25.04. Prior to playing the song, Bob Weir dedicated this to Linda Ronstadt, who had also covered the song and had been unceremoniously cut short at a performance in Las Vegas for criticizing George W. Bush just days before.
• Third season American Idol contestant Camile Velasco, during Country week.
• Carrie Underwood - at the 2007 Grammy Awards.
• The Dixie Chicks did a cover to honor Don Henley as the 2007 MusiCares Person of the Year.
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their 2006 album Love Their Country.
• Suzi Quatro Released a cover and video in 2007.
• Stephen Fox^[1]
• Joan Baez, BZN, The Langley Schools Music Project, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Japanese singer KOKIA, Johnny Rodriguez, Kenny Rogers, Westlife all have covered "Desperado".
• "Weird Al" Yankovic recorded a unreleased parody of "Desperado" entitled "Avocado". The song is performed only in concerts, however.

The song was featured in the film In America.^{[attribution needed]}

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• In an episode of Seinfeld, "The Checks", Elaine Benes dated a man who called "Desperado" "his song": he would ignore Elaine whenever it was played. Elaine tried to come up with a song to share. She chose "Witchy Woman", another Eagles song also sung by Henley. He stuck with "Desperado".
• The character Grace Adler quoted from the song "Desperado" ("You've been out riding fences for so long now / Oh, you're a hard one / But I know that you've got your reasons") while breaking up with a boyfriend on a 2001 episode of the NBC sitcom Will & Grace.
• The professional wrestler Terry Funk used "Desperado" (both the Eagles' original as well as Clint Black's cover version) as his entrance music in Extreme Championship Wrestling.

• All Music Guide