Desperados Waiting For A Train Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 I'dD play the red river valley C G

 and Ahe'd sit out in the kitchen andD cry

 and rGun his fingers through EmseveAnty Dyears of Bmlivin'

 and Gwonder lord, hEmas ever will our drill run dAry

 we were frAiends me and this Dold man.

Chorus

 Like Bmdesperados waiting for a tGrain,

 Like Bmdesperados waiting for a tGrain Em A

He's a drifter, a driller of oil wells

He's an old school man of the world

He taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to

And he'd wink and give me money for the girls

And our lives was like, some old Western movie

Like desperados waitin' for a train

Like desperados waitin' for a train

From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him

To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe

There was old men with beer guts and dominos

Lying 'bout their lives while they played

I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"

Just like desperados waitin' for a train

Like desperados waitin' for a train

One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty

He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin

Well to me he was a hero of this country

So why's he all dressed up like them old men

Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two

Jus' like desperados waitin' for a train

Like a desperado waitin' for a train

The day 'fore he died I went to see him

I was grown and he was almost gone.

So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen

And sang one more verse to that old song

(spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin'

We're desperados waitin' for a train

Was like desperados waitin' for a train