Desperados Waiting For A Train - Highwaymen [Verse 1] [D]I'd play the Red River Valley And he'd [A]sit out in the kitchen and [Bm]cry Run his [G]fingers through [Em]seventy years of [D]livin'[Bm] And wonder, [G]Lord, has every [Em]well I drilled run [A]dry We were [A]friends, me and this old [D]man |[Chorus] |Like [Bm]desperadoes waiting for a [G]train |Like [Bm]desperadoes waiting for a [G]train[D][Em][A] [Verse 2] He's a [D]drifter and a driller of oil wells And an [A]old school man of the [Bm]world He'd [G]let me drive his [Em]car when he's too [D]drunk to[Bm] And he'd [G]wink and give me [Em]money for the [A]girls And our [A]lives was like some old western [D]movie [Chorus] [Verse 3] From the [D]time that I could walk he'd take me with him To a [A]bar called the Green Frog Ca[Bm]fe And there was [G]old men with [Em]beer guts and domi[D]noes[Bm] [G]Lyin' about their [Em]lives while they'd [A]play And [A]I was just a kid, they called me [D]Sidekick |[Chorus] |Like [Bm]desperadoes waiting for a [G]train |Like [Bm]desperadoes waiting for a [G]train[D][Em][A] [Verse 4] [D]One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty [A]Brown tobacco stains all down his [Bm]chin To [G]me he's one of the [Em]heroes of this [D]country[Bm] So [G]why's he all dressed [Em]up like them old [A]men Drinkin' [A]beer and playin' Moon and Forty [D]Two [Chorus] [Verse 5] The [D]day before he died I went to see him [A]I was grown and he was almost [Bm]gone So we just [G]closed our eyes and [Em]dreamed us up a [D]kitchen[Bm] And [G]sang another [Em]verse to that old [A]song Come on, [A]Jack, that son of a bitch is [D]coming |[Chorus] |Like [Bm]desperadoes waiting for a [G]train |Like [Bm]desperadoes waiting for a [G]train Outro: Like [Bm]desperadoes waiting for a [G]train Like [Bm]desperadoes waiting for a [G]train[D][Em][A][D]