Desperadoes Waiting for a Train
Desperadoes Waiting for a Train

Desperadoes Waiting for a Train easy guitar chords by Guy Clark

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    • Intro 1

    Verse 1
    I'd 
    play 
    the Red 
    River 
    Valley 

    And he'd 
    sit 
    out in 

    the kitchen 
    and cry 

    And run his 
    fingers 
    through 
    seventy 

    years 
    of liv
    in' 

    And wonder
    , "Lord, 

    has 
    ever' 
    well 
    I've 
    drilled 
    run 
    dry?" 

    Verse 2
    We were 
    friends, 
    me 
    and 
    this 
    old 
    man 

    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

    Verse 3

    He's 
    a 
    drifter 
    and 
    a driller 

    of 
    oil wells 

    And an 
    old 
    school 
    man 
    of 
    the world 

    He 
    let me 
    drive 
    his car 

    When he's 
    too 
    drunk 
    to 

    Verse 4
    And he'd 
    wink 
    and give me 

    money 
    for 
    the 
    girls 

    And 
    our 
    lives 
    were like 
    some 

    old 
    western 
    movie 

    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

    Verse 5

    From 
    the 
    time 
    that I 
    could walk 

    he'd 
    take 
    me with 
    him 

    To 
    a 
    bar 
    called 
    the Green 
    Frog 
    Cafe 

    There 
    were 
    old 
    men 
    with beer 

    guts 
    and 
    domin
    os 

    Lying 
    'bout 
    their 
    lives 
    while 

    they'd 
    played 

    Verse 6
    And I was 
    just 
    a kid 

    They all 
    called 
    his 
    "Sidekick" 

    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

    Verse 7

    One 
    day I 
    looked 
    up 
    and he's 

    pushin' 
    eighty 

    And there's 
    brown 
    tobacco 

    stains 
    all 
    down 
    his 
    chin 

    To 
    me 
    he's one 
    of the 

    heroes 
    of 
    this 
    country 

    So 
    why's 
    he all 
    dressed 
    up 

    like them 
    old 
    men 

    Verse 8
    Drinkin' 
    beer 
    and 
    playin' 

    Moon 
    and 
    Forty-two 

    Like 
    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

    Verse 9
    A 
    day 
    before 
    he died, 

    I 
    went 
    to see 
    him 

    I 
    was grown 
    and he 
    was 

    al
    most 
    gone 

    So 
    we just 
    closed 
    our 
    eye
    s 

    and dreamed 
    us 
    up 
    a kitchen 

    And 
    sang 
    another 
    verse 
    to 

    that old 
    song 

    "Come on, 
    Jack, 

    that son 
    of a guns 
    are comin' 
    " 

    Verse 10
    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

    Like 
    desperados 
    waitin' 
    for 
    a train 

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