Key: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I'd sing the Red River Valley
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And he'd sit in the kitchen and cry
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Run his fingers through seventy
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years of livin'
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Wonder Lord has every well I drilled ran dry
Verse 2
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Like desperados waiting for the train
Interlude 1
for the 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 an old school man of the world
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Taught me how to drive his car
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when he's too drunk to
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And he'd wink and give
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me money for the girls
And our lives was like some
Verse 4
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Like desperados waiting for the train
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Verse 5
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walk he take me with him
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To a place called the Green Frog Cafe
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There was old men with beer
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Lyin' bout their lives
And I was just a kid that they
Verse 6
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Like desperados waiting for the train
Interlude 2
for the train
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Verse 7
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stains all down his chin
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To me he's one of the
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heroes of this country
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So why's he all dressed up
Verse 8
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Like desperados waiting for the train
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Verse 9
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Then just before he died
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I went to see him
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I was grown and he was almost gone
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We just closed our eyes and dreamed
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us up a kitchen
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And sang another verse
Verse 10
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Like desperados waiting for the train
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Like desperados waiting for the train
Outro 1
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