1 2 1 2 3 4
B5 2 3 4 B5 2 3 4 G5 2 3 4 G5 2 3 4
B5 2 3 4 B5 2 3 4 G5 2 3 4 G5 2 3 4
D5 A5 D5
I played the Red River Valley C 2 G 2
A5 B5
He'd sit in the kitchen and cry
G5 D5 B5
Run his fingers through seventy years of livin' ~
E5 A5
"I wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry?"
A5 D5
We were friends, me and this old man
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
D5 A5 D5
He was a drifter, a driller of oil wells C 2 G 2
A5 B5
A teacher, a schoolman of the world 2 3 4
G5 D5 B5
Let me drive his car when he was too drunk to ~
E5 A5
He'd wink and give me money for the girls
A5 D5
And our lives were like some old Western movie
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
D5 A5 D5
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him C 2 G 2
A5 B5
To a bar called the Green Frog Caf-e 2 3 4
G5 D5 B5
Where old men with beer guts and dominoes ~
E5 A5
Would lie about their lives while they played
A5 D5
And I was just a kid, they all called "Sidekick"
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
D5 A5 D5
Well, one day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty C 2 G 2
A5 B5
Brown tobacco stains all down his chin 2 3 4
G5 D5 B5
To me he was a hero of this country ~
E5 A5
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
A5 D5
Just drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
D5 A5 D5
The day before he died I went to see him C 2 G 2
A5 B5
I was grown and he was almost gone 2 3 4
G5 D5 B5
But we closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen ~
E5 A5
And sang another verse to that old song
A5 D5
(spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-gun is comin'
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4
B5 G5
Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 B5 end
