Desperados Waiting For A Train chords by The Highwaymen

Tuning: EADGBE

VERSE 1:
C            G
I'd play the Red River Valley,
    Am            Dm
and he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry.
       D             F     Fm
And run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
   C           G         Am
And wonder Lord, has every well I drilled run dry.
        Dm
We were friends me and this old man.

CHORUS:
    F            G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
    F            G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
    F            G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
    F    Fm       C
Like desperadoes waiting for a train.

VERSE 2:
C              G
He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells,
      Am        Dm
and an old school man of the world,
            D      F  Fm
He'd let me drive his car when he's too drunk to,
     C        G      Am
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls,
            Dm
And our lives was like some old western movie.

VERSE 3:
C                     G
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him,
   Am               Dm
to a bar called the Green Frog Cafe,
     D        F      Fm
And there was old men with beer guts and dominoes,
    C    G       Am
Lyin' 'bout their lives while they'd play,
                 Dm
And I was just a kid they called his sidekick

VERSE 4:
C                G
One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty,
    Am               Dm
And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin,
    D      F      Fm
To me he's one of the heroes of this country,
    C    G        Am
So why's he all dressed up like them old men,
                Dm
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty Two

VERSE 5:
C                 G
The day before he died I went to see him
    Am           Dm
I was grown and he was almost gone
      D          F      Fm
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
    C    G       Am
And sang another verse to that old song
                 Dm
Come on Jack, that son of a bitch is a-coming.