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 [Bm] Cafe 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]