Desperados Waiting for a Train Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D]

[Verse 1]
[D]I played the Red River [C]Valley[G]
[A]He'd sit out in the kitchen and cry[Bm]
[G]Run his fingers thr[Em]ough 70 years
[D]of living[Bm]
And wonder [G]Lord, [D]as ever,
will [Em]that drill [A]run dry?
We were friends, me an this [D]old man

[Verse 2]
[Bm]Desperados waiting for a train[A][G]
[Bm]Like desperados waiting for a [A]train[G]
[D][Em][Asus4][A]

[Verse 3]
[D]
He's a drifter, and a driller of oil [C]wells[G]
[A]And old school man of the[Bm] world
[A]Taught me [G]how to drive his [Em]car when he's
too drunk [D]to[Bm]
[G]And he'd wink,
and give me money [Em]for [A]the girls
And our lives was like some
old western [D]movie

[Verse 4]
[Bm]Desperados waiting for a[G] train
[Bm]Like desperados waiting for [A]a train

[Interlude 1]
[G][Em][A]

[Verse 5]
[D]From the time that I could walk,
he'd take me with [C]him[G]
[A]To a bar, called the Green
Frog [F#]Cafe[Bm]
And there were [G]old men,
[Em]with beer guts and dominoes
[D]Lyi[Bm]ng ab[G]out
[Em]their lives while they [A]play
I was just a kid, they called his [D]sidekick

[Verse 6]
[Bm]Desperados waiting for a tra[G]in
[Bm]Like desperados waiting
for [A]a train

[Interlude 2]
[G][D][Em][A]

[Verse 7]
[D]One day I looked up,
and he's pushing [C]eighty[G]
[A]Brown tobacco stains all down his chi[Bm]n
[G]To me he's one of the her[Em]oes
of this coun[D]try[Bm]
[G]Why is he all [D]dressed up [Em]like
them old [A]men?
Drinking beer and playing
moon in forty- [D]two

[Verse 8]
[Bm]Desperados waiting for a tra[G]in
[Bm]Like desperados waiting
[A]for a train

[Interlude 3]
[G][Em][Asus4][A]

[Verse 9]
[D]The day before he died,
I went to see [C]him[G]
[A]I was grown,
and he was almost [F#]gone[Bm]
So we just [G]closed our eyes [Em]an d dreamed
of supper [D]kitchens[Bm]
[G]And sang an[D]other verse
[Em]to that old [A]song
Come on Jack,
that son of a gun's a coming
[D]

[Verse 10]
[Bm]
Desperados waiting for [G]the train
[Bm]Desperados waiting for the t[G]rain
[Bm]Desperados waiting for the t[G]rain
[Bm]Desperados waiting for the t[A]rain
[G]