Key: D major
Verse 1
D
A
D
I'd play the Red River Violin
Em
A
D
And he'd sit in the kitchen and cry
G
Em
Run his fingers through seventy years
A
D
A
Bm
of living and won der
A
G
Em
A
Lord, as ever well I drove gone dry
Bm
G
Desperado's waiting for a train
Bm
G
Em
Desperado's waiting for a train
A
D
A
D
He's a drifter and a driller of all wells
Em
A
D
An old -school man of the world
G
Bm
Em
Taught me how to drive his car
A
D
when he's too drunk to
A
Bm
G
An d it winked and gave
Em
A
me money for the girls
Our lives was like some old western movie
D
Bm
Like desperadoes waiting for a train
G
Bm
G
Em
Like desperadoes waiting for a train
A
D
From the time that I could walk,
A
D
he'd take me with him
Em
A
D
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
G
Em
I was an old man with beer guts,
A
D
A
Bm
playin' dominoes
G
Em
A
Lying about their lives while they'd play
I was just a kid,
Bm
G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train
Bm
G
Em
Like desperadoes waiting for a train
A
D
A
One day I looked up and
Em
A
There was brown tobacco stains
all down his chin
D
G
To me he's one of the her
Em
A
D
A
oes of this country
Bm
A
G
Em
So why's he all dressed up
Drankin' beer and playin'
G
Bm
Like desperadoes waitin'
G
Em
A
for a train
D
A
D
Just before he died, I went to see him
Em
A
D
I was grown, he was almost gone
A
D
and dreamed us up a kitchen
Bm
G
Em
A
And sang another verse to that old song
I said, come on, Jack,
Bm
G
We're desperadoes waiting for a train
G
Em
A
D
train
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