verse 1 D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) DI'd (xx0232@1)play the red river valley A (x02220@1) Dand (xx0232@1)he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry G (320003@1) Dand (xx0232@1)run his fingers through seventy years of livin' G (320003@1) Aand (x02220@1)wonder lord, has ever will our drill run dry A7 (x02020@1) Dwe (xx0232@1)were friends me and this old man. chorus: Bm (x24432@1) GLike (320003@1)desperados waiting for a train, Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) Em (022000@1)name="chord_x02020@1">A7 Like desperados waiting for a train verse 2 D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) DHe's (xx0232@1)a drifter and a driller of oil wells A (x02220@1) Dand (xx0232@1)an old school man of the world G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)He'd let me drive his car when he's too drunk to G (320003@1) Aand (x02220@1)he'd wink and give me money for the girls A7 (x02020@1) Dand (xx0232@1)our lives were like some old western movie.(chorus) verse 3 D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) DFrom (xx0232@1)the time that I could walk he'd take me with him A (x02220@1) Dto (xx0232@1)a bar called the Green Frog Cafe G (320003@1) Dand (xx0232@1)there were old men with beer guts and dominoes G (320003@1) Alyin' (x02220@1)'bout their lives while they'd play A7 (x02020@1) Dand (xx0232@1)I was a kid they called his side kick.(chorus) verse 4 D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1)One day I looked up and he's pushin eighty A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1)and there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)to me he's one of the heroes of this country G (320003@1) Aso (x02220@1)why's he all dressed up like them old men A7 (x02020@1) D (xx0232@1)drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty Two.(chorus) verse 5 D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1)The day before he died I went to see him A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1)I was grown and he was almost gone G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)so we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen G (320003@1) Aand (x02220@1)sang another verse to that old song A (x02220@1) Dcome (xx0232@1)on Jack, that son of a guns a-comin' (chorus 4x) fade out on Gat (320003@1)the end. Hope you like it I played it by ear and got this. I think its the closest to the actual song.