Desperados Waiting For A Train

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