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- Date: 2/16/98; 3:17:03 PM
- From: Jim Votaw <mvotaw@pacbell.net>
- Subject: Desperados Waiting for a Train by Guy Clark
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- This version is from the CD "Keepers"
- Jim Votaw
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- DESPERADOS WAITING FOR A TRAIN (Guy Clark)
- D descending bass C B A Bm
- I'd play the Red River Valley, and he'd sit in his kitchen and cry
- G G/F# Em D Bm
- And run his fingers through 70 years of livin'
- G G/F# Em A
- And wonder Lord, has every well I drilled run dry.
- A A/C# D
- We were friends me and this old man
- CHORUS Bm G
- LIKE DESPERADOS WAITING FOR A TRAIN (repeat) Em
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- 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)
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- >From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
- To a bar called the Green Frog CafÄ
- 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 all called his sidekick (CHORUS)
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- 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)
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- 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 bitch is coming (CHORUS)