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Desperadoes Waiting for a Train easy guitar chords by
Guy Clark
Guy Clark

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Intro 1
D

Verse 1
D
C

I'd play the Red River Valley
G
A

And he'd sit out in
Bm

the kitchen and cry
G
Em

And run his fingers through seventy
D
Bm

years of livin'
G

And wonder, "Lord,
Em
A

has ever' well I've drilled run dry?"
Verse 2
A
D

We were friends, me and this old man
Bm
G

Like desperados waitin' for a train
Bm

Like desperados waitin' for a train
G
Em
Verse 3

D

He's a drifter and a driller
Csus2
G

of oil wells
A
Bm

And an old school man of the world
G
Em

He let me drive his car
D
Bm

When he's too drunk to
Verse 4
G

And he'd wink and give me
Em
A

money for the girls

And our lives were like some
D

old western movie
Bm
G

Like desperados waitin' for a train
Bm

Like desperados waitin' for a train
G
Em
Verse 5

D

From the time that I could walk
Csus2

he'd take me with him
G
A
Bm

To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
G
Em

There were old men with beer
D
Bm

guts and dominos
G
Em

Lying 'bout their lives while
A

they'd played
Verse 6
A

And I was just a kid
D

They all called his "Sidekick"
Bm
G

Like desperados waitin' for a train
Bm

Like desperados waitin' for a train
G
Em
Verse 7

D

One day I looked up and he's
C

pushin' eighty
Bm
A

And there's brown tobacco
Bm

stains all down his chin
G

To me he's one of the
Em
D
Bm

heroes of this country
G
Em

So why's he all dressed up
A

like them old men
Verse 8
A

Drinkin' beer and playin'

Moon and Forty-two
D
Bm
G

Like Like desperados waitin' for a train
Bm
G

Like desperados waitin' for a train
Verse 9
G
Em
D

A day before he died,
Dm
C
Baug

I went to see him
A

I was grown and he was
G
Bm

al most gone
G
Em

So we just closed our eyes
D
G

and dreamed us up a kitchen
Bm
G
Em

And sang another verse to
G
A

that old song

"Come on, Jack,
D

that son of a guns are comin' "
Verse 10
Bm
G

Like desperados waitin' for a train
Bm
G

Like desperados waitin' for a train
Bm
G

Like desperados waitin' for a train
Bm

Like desperados waitin' for a train

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Chords
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  • C

  • G

  • A

  • Bm

    2
  • Em

  • Csus2

  • Dm

  • Baug

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