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Desperados Waiting For A Train chords by The Highwaymen

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: EADGBE

VERSE 1:
Chord diagramC majorC                       Chord diagramG+G
I'd play the Red River Valley,
        Chord diagramA minorAm                        Chord diagramDmDm
and he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry.
             Chord diagramD MajorD                          Chord diagramFF          Chord diagramF minorFm
And run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
     Chord diagramC majorC                     Chord diagramG+G                 Chord diagramA minorAm
And wonder Lord, has every well I drilled run dry.
                Chord diagramDmDm
We were friends me and this old man.

CHORUS:
        Chord diagramFF                       Chord diagramG+G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
        Chord diagramFF                       Chord diagramG+G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
        Chord diagramFF                       Chord diagramG+G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
        Chord diagramFF       Chord diagramF minorFm             Chord diagramC majorC
Like desperadoes waiting for a train.

VERSE 2:
Chord diagramC majorC                            Chord diagramG+G
He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells,
           Chord diagramA minorAm               Chord diagramDmDm
and an old school man of the world,
                        Chord diagramD MajorD           Chord diagramFF    Chord diagramF minorFm
He'd let me drive his car when he's too drunk to,
         Chord diagramC majorC                Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramA minorAm
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls,
                        Chord diagramDmDm
And our lives was like some old western movie.

VERSE 3:
Chord diagramC majorC                                         Chord diagramG+G
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him,
      Chord diagramA minorAm                              Chord diagramDmDm
to a bar called the Green Frog Cafe,
          Chord diagramD MajorD                Chord diagramFF           Chord diagramF minorFm
And there was old men with beer guts and dominoes,
        Chord diagramC majorC       Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramA minorAm
Lyin' 'bout their lives while they'd play,
                                 Chord diagramDmDm
And I was just a kid they called his sidekick

VERSE 4:
Chord diagramC majorC                               Chord diagramG+G
One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty,
        Chord diagramA minorAm                              Chord diagramDmDm
And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin,
        Chord diagramD MajorD            Chord diagramFF            Chord diagramF minorFm
To me he's one of the heroes of this country,
        Chord diagramC majorC       Chord diagramG+G                Chord diagramA minorAm
So why's he all dressed up like them old men,
                                Chord diagramDmDm
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty Two

VERSE 5:
Chord diagramC majorC                                 Chord diagramG+G
The day before he died I went to see him
        Chord diagramA minorAm                     Chord diagramDmDm
I was grown and he was almost gone
            Chord diagramD MajorD                   Chord diagramFF           Chord diagramF minorFm
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
        Chord diagramC majorC       Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramA minorAm
And sang another verse to that old song
                                 Chord diagramDmDm
Come on Jack, that son of a bitch is a-coming.

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