{"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":1147124,"song":"Desperados Waiting For A Train","artist":"The Highwaymen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1147124-desperados-waiting-for-a-train-chords-by-the-highwaymen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1147124?type=chord","rating":4.90881,"votes":74,"content":"Desperados Waitin' For a Train Guy Clark \r\n            \r\n1 2 1 2 3 4 \r\n                                  \r\n[ch]Bm[/ch] 2 3 4 [ch]Bm[/ch] 2 3 4 [ch]G[/ch] 2 3 4 [ch]G[/ch] 2 3 4 \r\n                                  \r\n[ch]Bm[/ch] 2 3 4 [ch]Bm[/ch] 2 3 4 [ch]G[/ch] 2 3 4 [ch]G[/ch] 2 3 4 \r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]              \r\nI played the Red River Valley C 2 G 2 [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]Bm[/ch]  \r\nHe'd sit in the kitchen and cry [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Bm[/ch] \r\nRun his fingers through seventy years of livin' ~  [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                                              [ch]A[/ch]     \r\n\"I wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry?\" [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]       \r\nWe were friends, me and this old man [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]           \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]                   \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]                 \r\nHe was a drifter, a driller of oil wells C 2 G 2 [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]Bm[/ch]          \r\nA teacher, a schoolman of the world 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Bm[/ch] \r\nLet me drive his car when he was too drunk to ~  [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/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 were like some old Western movie [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]           \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]                   \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                \r\nFrom the time that I could walk he'd take me with him C 2 G 2 [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]Bm[/ch]       \r\nTo a bar called the Green Frog Caf-e  2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Bm[/ch] \r\nWhere old men with beer guts and dominoes ~  [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]                                [ch]A[/ch]      \r\nWould lie about 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 \"Sidekick\" [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]           \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]                   \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]              \r\nWell, one day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty C 2 G 2 [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                 [ch]Bm[/ch]         \r\nBrown tobacco stains all down his chin 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Bm[/ch] \r\nTo me he was a hero of this country ~  [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/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\nJust drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]           \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]                   \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]               \r\nThe day before he died I went to see him C 2 G 2 [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]Bm[/ch]         \r\nI was grown and he was almost gone 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Bm[/ch] \r\nBut we closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen ~  [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]    \r\nAnd sang another verse to that old song [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]                                   [ch]D[/ch]      \r\n(spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-gun is comin' [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]           \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]           \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]           \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 [/tab]\r\n     [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]                  \r\nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 [ch]Bm[/ch] end","plain_text":"Desperados Waitin' For a Train Guy Clark \n            \n1 2 1 2 3 4 \n                                  \nBm 2 3 4 Bm 2 3 4 G 2 3 4 G 2 3 4 \n                                  \nBm 2 3 4 Bm 2 3 4 G 2 3 4 G 2 3 4 \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     Bm                       G                  \nLike desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 Bm 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