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- Desperados Waitin' For a Train Guy Clark
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- C F C Bb
- I played the Red River Valley
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- G Am
- He'd sit in the kitchen and cry
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- F C Em Am
- Run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
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- F G G7
- "I wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry?"
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- G C
- We were friends, me and this old man
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- Am F
- Like two desperados waitin' for a train
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- Am F G G7
- Two desperados waitin' for a train
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- He was a drifter, a driller of oil wells
- A teacher, a schoolman of the world
- Taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to
- He'd wink and give me money for the girls
- And our lives were like, well, some old Western movie
- Like desperados waitin' for a train
- Like desperados waitin' for a train
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- Yeah, from the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
- To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
- Where old men with beer guts and dominoes
- Would lie about their lives while they played
- And I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"
- Just like desperados waitin' for a train
- Like desperados waitin' for a train
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- Well, one day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
- Brown tobacco stains all down his chin
- To me he was a hero of this country
- So what's he doin' all dressed up like them old men
- Just drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
- We were desperados waitin' for a train
- Desperados waitin' for a train
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- The day before he died I went to see him
- I was grown, he, almost gone.
- But we closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
- And sang one more verse to that old song
- (spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin'
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- Desperados waitin' for a train
- Desperados waitin' for a train.
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