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