Highwaymen - Desperados Waiting For A Train guitar chord

Desperados Waiting For A Train

By The Highwaymen

Written by Guy Clark

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

12/4/2005

D C B

I'd play the Red River Valley

A Bm Bm/A

And he'd sit in his kitchen and cry

G Em D Bm

And run his fingers through 70 years of livin'

G G/F# Em D Asus4 A

And wonder Lord, has every well I drilled run dry

A D

We were friends me and this old man

CHORUS

Bm G

Like desperados waiting for a train

Bm G

Like desperados waiting for a train

He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells

And an old school man of this world

He taught me how to drive his car when he's too drunk to

And he'd wink and give me money for the girls

And our lives was like some old western movie

Chorus

From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him

To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe

And there was old men with beer guts and dominoes

Lyin' 'bout their lives while they'd play

And I was just a kid they called his sidekick

Chorus

One day I looked up and he's pushin' 80

And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin

To me he's one of the heroes of this country

So why's he all dressed up like them old men

Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon & 42

Chorus

The day before he died I went to see him

I was grown and he was almost gone

So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen

And sang another verse to that old song

Come on Jack, that son of a gun’s a-comin’

Chorus