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man who was kind of like my grandfather.
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mother's boyfriend,
and he drilled oil wells all over the world.
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and the Middle East.
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These guys taught me how to whittle, cuss,
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spit, drive a car, and sit up straight.
And I'd play the Red River ballad,
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an d he'd sit in the kitchen,
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and he'd cry, and run his fingers
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through seventy years of living,
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has every well I drilled gone dry with his friends me and
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this old man was like desperadoes waiting for a train
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like desperadoes waiting for a train
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Well, he's a drifter
and a driller of oil well
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An d an old -school man of the world
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He taught me how to drive his car
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Ooh, and he'd wink and
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give me money for the girls
And our lives was like some
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train
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To a bar called the Green Frog Café
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beer guts and dominoes
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Oh, and they're lyin'
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about their lives while they play
And I was just a kid
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Like desperadoes waitin' for a train
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Like desperadoes waitin' for a train
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His brown tobacco stains all down his chin
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her oes of this country
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So why's he all dressed up
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like them old men
He's drinkin' beer
and playin' moon and 42
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Like a desperado waitin' for a train
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Like a desperado waitin' for a train
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An d the day before he
died I went to see him
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An d I was grown and
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And sang another verse
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to that old song
Come on Jack, the sunbitch is comin'
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train.
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Like des peradoes waiting for a train.
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train.
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train.
be me. me.
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Thank you. Thank you. accompani
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ment acoustic plays
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No, no...
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For some reason,
it seems like mankind has always been fascinated
with pushing dirt around.
Find a nice little pile of dirt over here
and just can't wait to get
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it over here.
That's part of the human condition.
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