D
I'd play the Red River Valley
         A                          Bm
And he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry
        G               Em               D      Bm
Run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
            G               Em                 A
And wonder, Lord, has every well I drilled run dry
        A                        D
We were friends, me and this old man

[Chorus]
     Bm                        G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train
     Bm                        G      D/F#  Em   Asus4   A
Like desperadoes waiting for a train

[Verse 2]
       D
He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells
       A                     Bm
And an old school man of the world
     G                Em                D        Bm
He'd let me drive his car when he's too drunk to
         G                Em            A
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls
        A                               D
And our lives was like some old western movie

[Chorus]
     Bm                        G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train
     Bm                        G     D/F#  Em   Asus4   A
Like desperadoes waiting for a train

[Verse 3]
         D
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
     A                           Bm
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
              G            Em                D        Bm
And there was old men with beer guts and dominoes
G                 Em                 A
Lyin' about their lives while they'd play
    A                                D
And I was just a kid, they called me Sidekick

[Chorus]
     Bm                        G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train
     Bm                        G     D/F#  Em   Asus4   A
Like desperadoes waiting for a train

[Verse 4]
D
One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
A                                 Bm
Brown tobacco stains all down his chin
   G                  Em             D        Bm
To me he's one of the heroes of this country
   G                    Em               A
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
         A                               D
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty Two

[Chorus]
     Bm                        G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train
     Bm                        G     D/F#  Em   Asus4   A
Like desperadoes waiting for a train

[Verse 5]
    D
The day before he died I went to see him
A                             Bm
I was grown and he was almost gone
           G                   Em              D        Bm
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
    G            Em                A
And sang another verse to that old song
         A                            D
Come on, Jack, that son of a bitch is coming

[Chorus]
     Bm                        G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train
     Bm                        G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train
     Bm                        G
Like desperadoes waiting for a train
     Bm                        G    D/F#   Em     Asus4     A     D
Like desperadoes waiting for a train