Highwaymen - Desperados Waiting For A Train guitar tab

VERSE 1

C G

I'd play the Red River Valley,

Am Dm

and he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry.

D F Fm

And run his fingers through seventy years of livin'

C G Am

And wonder Lord, has every well I drilled run dry.

Dm

We were friends me and this old man.

CHORUS

F G

Like desperadoes waiting for a train,

F G

Like desperadoes waiting for a train,

F G

Like desperadoes waiting for a train,

F Fm C

Like desperadoes waiting for a train.

VERSE 2

C G

He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells,

Am Dm

and an old school man of the world,

D F Fm

He'd let me drive his car when he's too drunk to,

C G Am

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

Dm

And our lives was like some old western movie.

VERSE 3

C G

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

Am Dm

to a bar called the Green Frog Cafe,

D F Fm

And there was old men with beer guts and dominoes,

C G Am

Lyin' 'bout their lives while they'd play,

Dm

And I was just a kid they called his sidekick

VERSE 4

C G

One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty,

Am Dm

And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin,

D F Fm

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

C G Am

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

Dm

Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty Two

VERSE 5

C G

The day before he died I went to see him

Am Dm

I was grown and he was almost gone

D F Fm

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

C G Am

And sang another verse to that old song

Dm

Come on Jack, that son of a bitch is a-coming.