Chords for GUY CLARK DESPERADOS WAITING FOR THE TRAIN

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_ _ _ _ This is a song about a man who's kind of like my grandfather.
_ [D] Actually he's my grandmother's boyfriend, is what he was.
_ _ His name was Jack Prigg. _
He drilled oil wells all over the world. _ _
Taught me how to [Gm] whittle, spit, cuss, and drive a [A] car.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _
Monahans, Texas. _ _ _ _ _ _
I'd play the red river loudly, _ _ [A] and he'd sit in the kitchen,
and he'd cry, [B] _ _ [G] and run his [F#] fingers
[E] through 70 [D] _ years of [Bm] living.
[G] And wonder, Lord, [E] as every well I drilled [A] drawn dry. _
_ His friends, me [D] and his old man, [Bm] was like _ desperadoes
waiting [G] for a train.
_ _ _ [B] Like desperadoes waiting for [G] a train.
_ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] Well, he's a drifter and a driller of oil [C] wells.
_ [A] And an old school man [Bm] of the world.
He [G] taught me how to [E] drive his car when he's [D] too drunk to.
_ [Bm] _
[F#] Oh, and he'd wake and give [E] me money _ [A] for the girl.
_ _ And our lives was like some [Em] old western [D] movie.
[Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train.
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Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train.
_ [Bm] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
[D] From the time that I could walk, he'd take me with him _
_ [B] _ [A] to a bar called the Green [Bm] Frog Cafe.
_ _ And there was old [Em] men with beer, [D] guts, and _ [B] dominoes.
Oh, and [G] they'd lie [E] about their lives while [A] they played.
_ _ And I was just a kid, and they [Am] all [D] called his sidekick.
[Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train.
_ _ _ [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train.
_ [Bm] _
_ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _
[D] One day I looked up and he's pushing 80. _
_ [B] And [A] there's brown tobacco stains [Bm] all down his chin.
_ _ [G] Well, to me he's [E] one of the heroes of [D] this country.
_ [B] _
[G] So why is he [E] all dressed up [A] like them old men?
_ He's drinking beer and playing Moon and [E] [D] 42.
_ [Bm] Like a desperado waiting [G] for a train.
_ _ _ [Bm] Like a desperado waiting [G] for a train.
_ [Bm] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[D] And the day before he died I went to see him.
And _
_ [G] _ [A] I was grown and he was [Bm] almost gone.
_ So [G] we just closed our [E] eyes and dreamed [D] of supper kitchen.
_ [B] _
[G] And sang another [E] verse to that old song.
[A] _
_ _ _ Come on, Jack, the son of a bitch is coming.
[D] _ And [Bm] we're desperadoes waiting [G] for a train.
_ _ _ [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train. _ _ _
[Bm] Like desperadoes waiting for [G] a train.
_ _ _ [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train. _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ Thank you so much. _ _ _ _ _ _ _