Key: D
Introduction:
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I played the Red River Valley and he'd sit in the kitchen and cry
G D Bm
An' run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
G A
An' wonder Lord, as ever, will that drill run dry?
A D
We were friends, me and this old man
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train
Bm G D A
Like desperados waitin' for a train
D A Bm
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
G A Bm
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
G A D
There was old men with beer guts and dominoes
G D A
Lying 'bout their lives while they played
A D
And I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train
Bm G D A
Like desperados waitin' for a train
D A Bm
He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells
G A Bm
And an old school man of the world
G D
He'd let me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to
G D A
And 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
Bm G D A
Like desperados waitin' for a train
D A Bm
One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
G A Bm
And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin
G D
To me he was a hero of this country
G D A
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
A D
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train
Bm G D A
Like desperados waitin' for a train
D A Bm
The day before he died I went to see him
G A Bm
I was grown and he was almost gone.
G D
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
G D A
And sang another verse to that old song
A D
Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-gun's are comin'
Bm G
Like desperados waitin' for a train
Bm G D A
Like desperados waitin' for a train