Chords for Jason Isbell "Desperadoes Waiting on a Train" | 2015 Austin City Limits Hall of Fame

[E] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [D#m] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ [B] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [G#m] _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] I'd play the Red River Valley _
[D#m] He'd [E] sit out [C#] in the kitchen and [D#m] cry _
[B] Run his [F#] fingers [G#] through seven [F#] years [B] of living
[F#] And [G#m] wonder, Lord, has every well I've [C#] drilled run dry
We were friends, me [F#] and this old man
[D#m] Like desperadoes waiting [B] for a train
Like _
[D#m] _ desperadoes [B] waiting for a train
_ [F#] _
[G#m] _ [C#] He's _ _ [F#] a drifter and a driller of oil wells
[B] [C#] And an old school man [D#m] of the world
He [C#] [B] taught me [F#] how to drive [G#m] his car when he's [F#] too drunk to
_ [G#m] And he'd wink and give me money for [C#] the girl
_ _ And our lives was like some old [F#] western movie
[B] Like desperadoes waiting for a train
_ Like desperadoes waiting for a train
_ [F#] [G#m] And _ _ [F#m] from the time I could walk, he took me with him
[F#] _ [B]
[C#] To a bar called Green [D#m] Frog Cafe
And [G#m]
there were old men with beer, guts [F#] and [B] dominoes
[G#m] And they were lying about their lives as [C#] they played
And I was just a kid that they all called [F#] his sidekick
[B] Like desperadoes waiting for a train
He's like desperadoes waiting for a train
_ _ [G#m] _
[C#] And [F#] one day I looked up and he was pushing 80
[F#m] And [B] [C#] there's brown tobacco stains all [B] down his chin
To me [F#] he was one of the heroes of this country _
[B] [F#] So why's he all [C#] dressed up like them old men?
_ Drinking beer and playing Moon and [F#] 42
[B] Like a desperado waiting for a train
_ Like _ desperadoes waiting for a train
_ [F#] _
[G#m] _ [C#] And _ [F] _ [F#] the day before he died I went to see
_ [B] When [E] I was grown and he was [D#m] almost gone
We [B] just closed our [F#] eyes and [G#m] dreamed us [F#m] up a kitchen
[B] And [G#m] we sang another [F#] verse to that [C#] old song
Come on Jack, that son of a bitch is [F#] coming
[D#m] Like desperadoes waiting for [B] a train
Like [F#] _ desperadoes [B] waiting for a train
He's [D#m] like desperadoes [B] waiting for a train
_ [F#] _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [G#m] _ [G#] _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
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