Key: A major•
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 sev
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enty years of livin'
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has every well I've drilled gone dry?"
Verse 2
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Verse 3
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He's a drifter and a driller
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of oil wells
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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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money for the girls
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Like desperados waiting for a train
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Desperados waiting for a train
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Verse 4
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From the time that I could walk,
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To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
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There was old men with beer
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guts and dominoes
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Lying 'bout their lives while
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they played
I was just a kid,
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for the train
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Desperados waiting for the train
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Verse 5
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One day I looked up,
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he's pushin' eighty
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Has 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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So why's he all dressed up like
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them old men
Drinkin' beer,
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for the train
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Desperado waiting for
Interlude 1
the train
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Verse 6
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Just before he died I went to see him
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I was grown and he was almost gone
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So we just closed our eyes and dreamed
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us up a kitchen
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And sang another verse to
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that old song
Come on, Jack,
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We're desperados waiting for the train
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Like desperados waiting for
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the train
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Desperados waiting for the train
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Desperados waiting for a train
Outro 1
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