Desperados Waitin' For a Train Guy Clark 1 2 1 2 3 4 Bm2 (x24432@1)3 4 Bm2 (x24432@1)3 4 G2 (320003@1)3 4 G2 (320003@1)3 4 Bm2 (x24432@1)3 4 Bm2 (x24432@1)3 4 G2 (320003@1)3 4 G2 (320003@1)3 4 D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) I played the Red River Valley C 2 G 2 A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) 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' ~ E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) "I wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry?" A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) We were friends, me and this old man Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4 D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) He was a drifter, a driller of oil wells C 2 G 2 A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) 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 ~ E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) He'd wink and give me money for the girls A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) And our lives were like some old Western movie Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4 D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him C 2 G 2 A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) 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 ~ E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) Would lie about their lives while they played A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) And I was just a kid, they all called "Sidekick" Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4 D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) Well, one day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty C 2 G 2 A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) 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 ~ E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) So why's he all dressed up like them old men A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) Just drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4 D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) The day before he died I went to see him C 2 G 2 A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) 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 ~ E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) And sang another verse to that old song A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) (spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-gun is comin' Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Like desperados waitin' for a train 2 3 4 Bm end