Tablature desperados waiting for a train - Guy Clark

          



 

  Desperados Waitin' For a Train 			Guy Clark 

  

  

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  I played the Red River Valley 

  

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  He'd sit in the kitchen and cry 

  

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  Run his fingers through seventy years of livin' 

  

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  "I wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry?" 

  

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  We were friends, me and this old man 

  

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  Like two desperados waitin' for a train 

  

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  Two desperados waitin' for a train 

  

  

  

  He was a drifter, a driller of oil wells

  A teacher, a schoolman of the world 

  Taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to

  He'd wink and give me money for the girls 

  And our lives were like, well, some old Western movie 

  Like desperados waitin' for a train 

  Like desperados waitin' for a train

  

  Yeah, from the time that I could walk he'd take me with him

  To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe 

  Where old men with beer guts and dominoes 

  Would lie about their lives while they played 

  And I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick" 

  Just like desperados waitin' for a train 

  Like desperados waitin' for a train 

  

  Well, one day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty

  Brown tobacco stains all down his chin 

  To me he was a hero of this country 

  So what's he doin' all dressed up like them old men 

  Just drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two 

  We were desperados waitin' for a train 

  Desperados waitin' for a train 

  

  The day before he died I went to see him

  I was grown, he, almost gone. 

  But we closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen 

  And sang one more verse to that old song 

  (spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin' 

  

  Desperados waitin' for a train 

  Desperados waitin' for a train. 

  

   


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 Desperados waiting for a train, de Guy clark 

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