Desperados Waiting for a Train Chords by The Highwaymen

_ _ _ [G] _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] I'd play the Red River Valley
[C] [A] And he'd sit out in the kitchen and [Bm] cry
And run his [F#m] fingers through seventy [D] years of living
[Bm]
And wonder, Lord, [Em] as ever, will I drill [A] run dry
_ [A] We were friends, me and this [D] old man
[Bm] Like desperadoes [G] waiting for the train
Like [Bm] _ desperadoes waiting [G] for the train
_ _ _ [E] _ [D] He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells
[C] _ [Bm] [A] And an old school man [Bm] of the world
He'd let [F#m] me drive his car [D] when he's too drunk to
[Bm]
And he'd wink [Em] and give me money [A] for the girls
And our lives were like some old western [D] [Bm] movie
Like desperadoes [G] waiting for the train
[A] Like [Bm] _ desperadoes waiting [G] for the train
From [Em] _ _ [A] _ [D] the time that I could walk, he'd take me with him
[C] To [A] a bar called the Green [Bm] Frog Cafe
And there were old [F#] men with beer [D] guts and dominoes
[Bm] _
Lying [Em] about their lives while [A] they'd play
And I was just a kid, they called his [D] sidekick
[Bm] Like desperadoes [G] waiting for the train
_ [A] [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for the train
_ [Em] _ _ [A] _ [D] One day I looked up and he's pushing eighty
[C] And [A] there's brown tobacco stains all down [Bm] his chin
_ [G] To me he's one of the heroes [D] of this country _
So why's [E] he all dressed up like [A] them old men
Drinking beer and playing moon and forty [D]-two
[Bm] Like desperadoes [G] waiting for the train
_ [E] _ [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for the train
The _ _ [A] _ _ [D] day before he died I went to see him
[C] I [Bm] [A] was grown and he was almost [Bm] gone
So we just [F#] closed our [Em] eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
[Bm] _
And [D] sang another [Em] verse [A] to that old song
Come on Jack, that son of a gun's a comin'
_ [D] _ [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting for [G] the train
_ _ [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for the train
_ [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for the train
Like _ [Bm] desperadoes waiting for the train _ _ _
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