Jerry Jeff Walker – Desperados Waiting For A Train (Guitar)
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By Jerry Jeff Walker
Written By Guy Clark
D A Bm Yeah, I played the Red River Valley; he'd sit in the kitchen and cry G A D Bm Run fingers through seventy years of living G A And wonder if every well he'd drilled had gone dry A D We was friends, me and this old man Bm G Desperados waiting for a train Bm G Desperados waiting for a train D As soon as I could walk he'd take me with him A Bm To a place called the Green Frog Cafe G A D Bm There was old men with beer guts and dominoes G A Lying 'bout their lives while they played A D And I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick" Bm G Desperados waiting for a train Bm G Desperados waiting for a train D Yeah, he's a drifter, he's a driller of oil wells A Bm He's an old school man of the world G A D He taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to G A He'd wink and give me money for the girls A D And our lives was like some old Western movie Bm G Desperados waiting for a train Bm G Desperados waiting for a train D One day I looked up, and he's pushin' eighty A Bm He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin G A D To me he was one of the heroes of this country G A So why's he all dressed up like them old men A D Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-Two Bm G Like a desperado waiting for a train Bm G Like a desperado waiting for a train D The day before he died I went to see him A Bm Yeah, I was grown, and he was almost gone G A D We closed our eyes and we dreamed us up a kitchen G A We played another verse to that old song
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"Yeah Jack, you know that son o' a bitch is comin'"
Bm G Like desperados waiting for a train Bm G Like desperados waiting for a train Bm G Like desperados waiting for a train Bm G Like desperados waiting for a train Bm G Desperados waiting for a train Bm G Desperados waiting for a train
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