Desperados Waiting For A Train

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Desperados Waitin' For a Train Guy Clark
1 2 1 2 3 4
Bm Bm G G
2 3 4 2 3 4 2 3 4 2 3 4
Bm Bm G G
2 3 4 2 3 4 2 3 4 2 3 4
D A D
I played the Red River Valley C 2 G 2
A Bm
He'd sit in the kitchen and cry
G D Bm
Run his fingers through seventy years of livin' ~
E A
"I wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry?"
A D
We were friends, me and this old man
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
D A D
He was a drifter, a driller of oil wells C 2 G 2
A Bm
A teacher, a schoolman of the world 2 3 4
G D Bm
Let me drive his car when he was too drunk to ~
E A
He'd wink and give me money for the girls
A D
And our lives were like some old Western movie
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
D A D
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him C 2 G 2
A Bm
To a bar called the Green Frog Caf-e 2 3 4
G D Bm
Where old men with beer guts and dominoes ~
E A
Would lie about their lives while they played
A D
And I was just a kid, they all called "Sidekick"
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
D A D
Well, one day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty C 2 G 2
A Bm
Brown tobacco stains all down his chin 2 3 4
G D Bm
To me he was a hero of this country ~
E A
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
A D
Just drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
D A D
The day before he died I went to see him C 2 G 2
A Bm
I was grown and he was almost gone 2 3 4
G D Bm
But we closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen ~
E A
And sang another verse to that old song
A D
(spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-gun is comin'
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
Bm G
Bm
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 end

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Desperados Waitin' For a Train Guy Clark 
1 2 1 2 3 4 
Bm 2 3 4 Bm 2 3 4 G 2 3 4 G 2 3 4 
Bm 2 3 4 Bm 2 3 4 G 2 3 4 G 2 3 4 
     Bm                       G                  
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 Bm end

Desperados Waiting For A Train Chords by The Highwaymen

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