Desperados Waiting for a Train Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][Em][G][A][D][G][A]

[Verse 1]
[D]I'd play
the Red River [C]Valley
[G]And he'd sit[A] out in the
kitchen and [Bm]cry
And run his [G]finger[D]s through s[Em]eventy
years of [D]livin'[Bm]
And wonder, [G]"Lord,
[D]has ever' [Em]well I've drilled run [Asus4]dry?"[A]

[Verse 2]
We were [A]friends, me and this [D]old man
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for [G]a train
Like [Bm]desperados waitin'
for [G]a train
[D][Em]

[Verse 3]
[Asus4]
[A]He's a dri[D]fter and a driller of oil[C] wells
[G]And an old[A] school man of the wor[Bm]ld
He [G]let me drive his car
[Em]When he's too drun[D]k to[Bm]
And he'd [G]wink and give me

[Verse 4]
[Em]
money for [A]the girls
And our lives were like some
old western [D]movie
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for [G]a train
Like [Bm]desperados waitin'
for a train
[G][D]

[Verse 5]
[Em][Asus4]
[A]From the tim[D]e that I could walk
he'd take me with [C]him
[G]To a bar[A] called the Green
Frog [Bm]Cafe
There were [G]old men [Em]with beer
guts and domin[D]os[Bm]
[G]Lying [D]'bout [Em]their lives while they'd
[A]played[Asus4][A]

[Verse 6]
[A]And I was just a kid
They all called his "Sidekick[D]"
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for [G]a train
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for
[G]a train
[D][Em]

[Verse 7]
[Asus4][A]
[D]One day I looked up and he's
pushin' [C]eighty
[G]And there's bro[A]wn tobacco
stains all down his [Bm]chin
To [G]me he's one of [Em]the heroes
of this coun[D]try[Bm]
So [G]why's he all dressed [Em]up
like them old [A]men

[Verse 8]
Drinkin' beer and playin' [A]Moon
and Forty-two
[D]Like Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for [G]a train
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for
a train
[G][F#m][Em][Asus4]

[Verse 9]
[D]A day before he died,
I went to see [C]him[G]
[A]I was grown and he was almost g[Bm]one
So we just [G]closed our eyes and
[Em]dreamed us up a [D]kit[Bm]chen
And [G]sang another [Em]verse to that
old [Asus4]song[A]
"Come on, Jack,
that son of a guns [D]are comin' "

[Verse 10]
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for [G]a train
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for [G]a train
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for [G]a train
Like [Bm]desperados waitin' for a train
[G]