Chords with lyrics
Tuning: EADGBE
VERSE 1:
C majorC G+G
I'd play the Red River Valley,
A minorAm DmDm
and he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry.
D MajorD FF F minorFm
And run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
C majorC G+G A minorAm
And wonder Lord, has every well I drilled run dry.
DmDm
We were friends me and this old man.
CHORUS:
FF G+G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
FF G+G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
FF G+G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
FF F minorFm C majorC
Like desperadoes waiting for a train.
VERSE 2:
C majorC G+G
He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells,
A minorAm DmDm
and an old school man of the world,
D MajorD FF F minorFm
He'd let me drive his car when he's too drunk to,
C majorC G+G A minorAm
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls,
DmDm
And our lives was like some old western movie.
VERSE 3:
C majorC G+G
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him,
A minorAm DmDm
to a bar called the Green Frog Cafe,
D MajorD FF F minorFm
And there was old men with beer guts and dominoes,
C majorC G+G A minorAm
Lyin' 'bout their lives while they'd play,
DmDm
And I was just a kid they called his sidekick
VERSE 4:
C majorC G+G
One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty,
A minorAm DmDm
And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin,
D MajorD FF F minorFm
To me he's one of the heroes of this country,
C majorC G+G A minorAm
So why's he all dressed up like them old men,
DmDm
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty Two
VERSE 5:
C majorC G+G
The day before he died I went to see him
A minorAm DmDm
I was grown and he was almost gone
D MajorD FF F minorFm
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
C majorC G+G A minorAm
And sang another verse to that old song
DmDm
Come on Jack, that son of a bitch is a-coming.