Desperados Waiting For A Train
Jerry Jeff WalkerVersion1
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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.