Chord/Tab song: Desperados Waiting for a Train

Desperados Waitin' For a Train Guy Clark

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[D]I played the [A]Red River [D]Valley C 2 G 2
He'd [A]sit in the kitchen and [Bm]cry
Run his [G]fingers through seventy years of [D]livin' [Bm]~
"I [E]wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone [A]dry?"
[A]We were friends, me and this [D]old man
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
[D]He was a drifter, a [A]driller of [D]oil wells C 2 G 2
A [A]teacher, a schoolman of the [Bm]world 2 3 4
Let me [G]drive his car when he was too [D]drunk to [Bm]~
He'd [E]wink and give me money for the [A]girls
[A]And our lives were like some old Western [D]movie
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
From the [D]time that I could [A]walk he'd take me [D]with him C 2 G 2
To a [A]bar called the Green Frog Caf-[Bm]e 2 3 4
Where [G]old men with beer guts and [D]dominoes [Bm]~
Would [E]lie about their lives while they [A]played
[A]And I was just a kid, they all called [D]"Sidekick"
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
Well, [D]one day I looked [A]up and he's pushin' [D]eighty C 2 G 2
[A]Brown tobacco stains all down his [Bm]chin 2 3 4
To [G]me he was a hero of this [D]country [Bm]~
So [E]why's he all dressed up like them old [A]men
[A]Just drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and [D]Forty-two
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
The [D]day before he [A]died I went to [D]see him C 2 G 2
[A]I was grown and he was almost [Bm]gone 2 3 4
But we [G]closed our eyes and dreamed us up a [D]kitchen [Bm]~
And [E]sang another verse to that old [A]song
(spoken) [A]Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-gun is [D]comin'
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a [G]train 2 3 4 Bm end