Desperados Waiting for a Train chords by 
The HighwaymenJohnny CashWaylon JenningsKris Kristofferson And Willie Nelson 
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Key: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I played the Red River Valley
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He'd sit out in the kitchen and cry
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Run his fingers through 70 years
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of living
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And wonder Lord, as ever,
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will that drill run dry?
Verse 2
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Desperados waiting for a train
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Like desperados waiting for a train
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Verse 3
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He's a drifter, and a driller of oil wells
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And old school man of the world
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Taught me how to drive his car when he's
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too drunk to
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And he'd wink,
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and give me money for the girls
And our lives was like some
Verse 4
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Desperados waiting for a train
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Like desperados waiting for a train
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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he'd take me with him
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Frog Cafe
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Lying about
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their lives while they play
Verse 6
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Desperados waiting for a train
Interlude 2
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Verse 7
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and he's pushing eighty
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Brown tobacco stains all down his chin
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To me he's one of the heroes
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of this country
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Why is he all dressed up like
Drinking beer and playing
Verse 8
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Desperados waiting for a train
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for a train
Interlude 3
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Verse 9
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I went to see him
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and he was almost gone
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So we just closed our eyes an d dreamed
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of supper kitchens
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And sang another verse
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to that old song
Come on Jack,
that son of a gun's a coming
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Verse 10
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Desperados waiting for the train
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Desperados waiting for the train
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Desperados waiting for the train
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