Guy Clark - Desperados waiting for a train
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Guy Clark - Desperados waiting for a train
I saw some chords here, but I think this one is correct.
Enjoy!
I'dD play the red river valley C G
and Ahe'd sit out in the kitchen andD cry
and rGun his fingers through EmseveAnty Dyears of Hmlivin'
and Gwonder lord, hEmas ever will our drill run dAry
we were frAiends me and this Dold man.
chorus:
Like Bmdesperados waiting for a tGrain,
Like Bmdesperados waiting for a tGrain Em A
---The rest of the song goes the same way---
He's a drifter, a driller of oil wells
He's an old school man of the world
He taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls
And our lives was like, some old Western movie
Like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
There was old men with beer guts and dominos
Lying 'bout their lives while they played
I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"
Just like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train
One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin
Well to me he was a hero of this country
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
Jus' like desperados waitin' for a train
Like a desperado waitin' for a train
The day 'fore he died I went to see him
I was grown and he was almost gone.
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
And sang one more verse to that old song
(spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin'
We're desperados waitin' for a train
Was like desperados waitin' for a train