{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1066537,"song":"Desperados Waiting For A Train","artist":"Jerry Jeff Walker","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11236263-desperados-waiting-for-a-train-chords-by-jerry-jeff-walker/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1066537?type=chord","rating":4.85273,"votes":147,"content":"Desperados Waiting for a Train\r\nBy Jerry Jeff Walker\r\nWritten By Guy Clark\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nYeah, I played the Red River Valley; he'd sit in the kitchen and cry[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nRun fingers through seventy years of living[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd wonder if every well he'd drilled had gone dry[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe was friends, me and this old man[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDesperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDesperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAs soon as I could walk he'd take me with him[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nTo a place called the Green Frog Cafe[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThere was old men with beer guts and dominoes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nLying 'bout their lives while they played[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I was just a kid, they all called me \"Sidekick\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDesperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDesperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYeah, he's a drifter, he's a driller of oil wells[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nHe's an old school man of the world[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe'd wink and give me money for the girls[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd our lives was like some old Western movie[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDesperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDesperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nOne day I looked up, and he's pushin' eighty[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]                                  [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nHe's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo me he was one of the heroes of this country[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo why's he all dressed up like them old men[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDrinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-Two[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike a desperado waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike a desperado waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe day before he died I went to see him[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nYeah, I was grown, and he was almost gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe closed our eyes and we dreamed us up a kitchen[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe played another verse to that old song[/tab]\r\n(spoken)\r\n\"Yeah Jack, you know that son o' a bitch is comin'\"\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike desperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike desperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike desperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike desperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDesperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDesperados waiting for a train[/tab]\r\n(fade out)","plain_text":"Desperados Waiting for a Train\nBy Jerry Jeff Walker\nWritten By Guy Clark\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(spoken)\n\"Yeah Jack, you know that son o' a bitch is comin'\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(fade out)","chords":["D","A","Bm","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}