Desperados Waiting For A Train(Chords)

	        

D          A          D           A                       Bm  
I played the Red River Valley and he'd sit in the kitchen and cry    
    G                       D               Bm  
An' run his fingers through seventy years of livin'    
   G                                          A  
An' wonder Lord, as ever, will that drill run dry?   
        A                    D  
We were friends, me and this old man    
Bm                          G  
Like desperados waitin' for a train    
Bm                          G          G  D  A  
Like desperados waitin' for a train    
   
  D                          A                   Bm  
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him   
 G                  A           Bm  
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe    
 G                       A              D  
There was old men with beer guts and dominoes    
  G                  D                A  
Lying 'bout their lives while they played    
    A                                  D  
And I was just a kid, they all called me 'Sidekick'    
Bm                          G  
Like desperados waitin' for a train    
Bm                          G          G  D  A  
Like desperados waitin' for a train    
   
 D             A                 Bm  
He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells   
G                  A           Bm  
And an old school man of the world    
  G                                      D  
He'd let me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to   
  G                       D               A  
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls    
    A                                  D  
And our lives were like, some old Western movie    
Bm                          G  
Like desperados waitin' for a train    
Bm                          G          G  D  A  
Like desperados waitin' for a train    
   
 D             A                 Bm  
One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty   
  G                    A                Bm  
And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin  
  G                         D  
To me he was a hero of this country    
 G                  D                 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 desperados waitin' for a train    
Bm                       G          G  D  A  
Like desperados waitin' for a train    
   
 D                A                 Bm  
The day before he died I went to see him   
  G             A             Bm  
I was grown and he was almost gone.    
       G                                      D  
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen    
   G              D                 A  
And sang another verse to that old song    
  
  A                                 D  
Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-gun's are comin'    
  
Bm                          G  
Like desperados waitin' for a train    
Bm                          G          G  D  A  
Like desperados waitin' for a train
	        

Written by Guy Clark