Desperados Waiting For A Train Chords by Guy Clark

[D] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
And I'd play the Red River Ballet
[C]
[G] And [A] he'd sit in the kitchen [Bm] and cry _
[G] Run his [F#m] fingers [Em] through [D] seven days [Bm] of living
[G] And wonder, [F#m] Lord, [Em] as ever, will I [D] drill gone dry
[A]
Oh, his friends, me [D] and this old [Bm] man
Was like [B] desperadoes waiting [G] for a train
_ [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train
[F#m] Well, [Em] _
_ _ [A] [D] he's a drifter and a driller of oil [C] wells
[G] And [A] an old-school man [Bm] of the world
He [G] taught me [F#m] how to [Em] drive his car when [G] he's too [D] drunk to
[Bm] And [G] he'd [F#m] wink and [Em] give me money [D] for the girls
[A] _ And our lives was like some old [D] western movie
[Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train _
[Bm] Like desperadoes waiting for [G] a train _
[F#m] _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ [D] From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
[C] _ [Bm] [A] To a bar called the Green [Bm] Frog Cafe
And [G] there was [F#m] old [Em] men with [D] guts and _ [Bm] dominoes
[G] [F#m] Lying [Em] about their lives [D] while they played
[A] And I just kid that they all [D] called his [Bm] sidekick
Was like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train
Like [Bm] _ desperadoes waiting [G] for a train
[Bm] And [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ [D]
one day I looked up and he's pushing 80
[C] And [B] [A] has brown tobacco stains [Bm] all down his chin
_ [G] Well, to [F#m] me he's [E] one of the heroes [D] of this country
[Bm] _ [G] So [F#m] why's he [E] all dressed up like them [A] old men
Drinking beer and [A] playing moon and [D] 42
[Bm] Just like a desperado waiting for [G] a train
Like [Bm] a desperado waiting for [G] a train
[Bm] And [Em] _ _ _
[A] [D] then the day [G] before he died [D] I went to see him
[C] _
[G] _ [A] I was [A] grown and he was [Bm] almost gone
So [G] we just [F#m] closed [Em] our eyes and [D] dreamed us of a kitchen
[Bm]
And [G] sang [Em] another verse of that old [D] [A] song
_ Come on Jack, son of a [D] bitch is coming
[Bm] And we're desperadoes waiting [G] for a train
_ _ [Bm] _
Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train
Like [Bm] _
desperadoes waiting for [G] a train
_ [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train _ _ _ _