Desperados Waitin' For a Train Guy Clark
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I played the Red River Valley C 2 G 2
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He'd sit in the kitchen and cry
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1)Run his fingers through seventy years of livin' ~
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"I wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry?"
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We were friends, me and this old man
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Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
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Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
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He was a drifter, a driller of oil wells C 2 G 2
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A teacher, a schoolman of the world 2 3 4
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1)Let me drive his car when he was too drunk to ~
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He'd wink and give me money for the girls
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And our lives were like some old Western movie
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Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
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Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
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From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him C 2 G 2
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To a bar called the Green Frog Caf-e 2 3 4
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1)Where old men with beer guts and dominoes ~
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Would lie about their lives while they played
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And I was just a kid, they all called "Sidekick"
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Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
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Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
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Well, one day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty C 2 G 2
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Brown tobacco stains all down his chin 2 3 4
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1)To me he was a hero of this country ~
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So why's he all dressed up like them old men
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Just drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
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Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
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The day before he died I went to see him C 2 G 2
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I was grown and he was almost gone 2 3 4
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1)But we closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen ~
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And sang another verse to that old song
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(spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-gun is comin'
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Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
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Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
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Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
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Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 Bm end
