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Desperados Waiting For A Train

Jerry Jeff Walker
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D-DU-UDU
 Yeah, I  played the Red River Valley and  sit in the kitchen and cry
Run  his fingers through seventy years  of livin'
 I wonder  if has every well I've drilled gone dry
 We were friends,  me and this old  man ss
Desperados  waitin' for a train  -i
Desperados  waitin' for a train  -i
 Soon as I could walk he'd take me with him
 To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
 There was old men with beer guts and dominoes
 Lying 'bout their lives while they played
 And I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"
 Desperados waitin' for a train -i
 Desperados waitin' for a train -i
 He's a drifter, a driller of oil wells
 He's an old school man of the world
 Taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to
 And he'd wink and give me money for the girls
 And our lives were like, some old Western movie
 Desperados waitin' for a train -i
 Desperados waitin' for a train
 One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
 He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin
 To me he was a hero of this country
 So why's he all dressed up like them old men
 Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
 Like desperados waitin' for a train
 Desperados waitin' for a train -i
 The day before he died I went to see him
 I was grown and he was almost gone.
 So we closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
 And sang one more verse to that old song
 Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-b***h is comin'
 Desperados waitin' for a train -i
 Desperados waitin' for a train.

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Readable chord sheet for Desperados Waiting For A Train by Jerry Jeff Walker

Yeah, [D]I played the Red River Valley and[A] sit in the kitchen and [Bm]cry
[G]Run his fingers through [A]seventy [D]years of [Bm]livin'
I [G]wonder if has every well I've drilled gone [A]dry
We were [A]friends, me and this [D]old man ss
[Bm]Desperados waitin' for a [G]train -i
[Bm]Desperados waitin' for a [G]train -i

Soon as I could walk he'd take me with him
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
There was old men with beer guts and dominoes
Lying 'bout their lives while they played
And I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"
Desperados waitin' for a train -i
Desperados waitin' for a train -i

He's a drifter, a driller of oil wells
He's an old school man of the world
Taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls
And our lives were like, some old Western movie
Desperados waitin' for a train -i
Desperados waitin' for a train

One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin
To me he was a hero of this country
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
Like desperados waitin' for a train
Desperados waitin' for a train -i

The day before he died I went to see him
I was grown and he was almost gone.
So we closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
And sang one more verse to that old song
Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-b***h is comin'

Desperados waitin' for a train -i
Desperados waitin' for a train.

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