Desperadoes Waiting for a Train chords by
Guy Clark

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Key: D major

Intro 1

D

Verse 1
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C C 
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I'd play the Red River Valley
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A A 
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And he'd sit out in
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the kitchen and cry
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And run his fingers through seventy
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years of livin'
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And wonder, "Lord,
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A A 
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has ever' well I've drilled run dry?"

Verse 2

A

D

We were friends, me and this old man

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Like desperados waitin' for a train

Bm

Like desperados waitin' for a train

G

Em

Verse 3
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He's a drifter and a driller
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G G 
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of oil wells
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And an old school man of the world
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Em Em 
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He let me drive his car
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When he's too drunk to

Verse 4
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And he'd wink and give me
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A A 
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money for the girls
And our lives were like some
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old western movie
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G G 
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Like desperados waitin' for a train
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Like desperados waitin' for a train
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Em Em 
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Verse 5
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From the time that I could walk
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he'd take me with him
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A A 
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To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
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Em Em 
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There were old men with beer
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guts and dominos
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Em Em 
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Lying 'bout their lives while
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they'd played

Verse 6
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And I was just a kid
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They all called his "Sidekick"
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G G 
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Like desperados waitin' for a train
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Like desperados waitin' for a train
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Verse 7
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One day I looked up and he's
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pushin' eighty
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A A 
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And there's brown tobacco
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stains all down his chin
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To me he's one of the
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D D 
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heroes of this country
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Em Em 
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So why's he all dressed up
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like them old men

Verse 8

A

Drinkin' beer and playin'

Moon and Forty-two

D

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G

Like Like desperados waitin' for a train

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G

Like desperados waitin' for a train

Verse 9
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D D 
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A  day before he died,
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Baug Baug 
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I went to see him
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I  was grown and he was
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al most gone
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Em Em 
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So we just closed our eyes
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G G 
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and dreamed us up a kitchen
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G G 
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Em Em 
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And sang another verse to
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A A 
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that old song
"Come on, Jack,
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that son of a guns are comin' "

Verse 10

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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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