Key: D
Introduction:
D C B A Bm
I'd play the Red River Valley, and he'd sit in his kitchen and cry
G G/F# Em D Bm
And run his fingers through 70 years of livin'
G G/F# Em A
And wonder Lord, has every well I drilled run dry.
A A/C# D
We were friends me and this old man
Bm G
LIKE DESPERADOS WAITING FOR A TRAIN (repeat) Em
He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells