Desperados Waiting for a Train Song Lyrics and Chords by The Highwaymen
Desperados Waiting for a Train
Recorded by The Highwaymen
Written by Guy Clark
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I'd play the Red River Valley
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sit out in the kitchen and
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cry
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fingers through
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seventy years of
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living
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Lord has every
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well I've drilled run
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We were friends me and this old
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man
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drifter and a driller of oil wells
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old school man of the
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world
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let me drive his
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car when he's too
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drunk
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wink and give me
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money for the
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girls
And our lives were like some old western
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movie
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time that I could walk he'd take me with him
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bar called the Green Frog
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Cafe
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old men with
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beer guts and domi
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Lying 'bout their
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lives while they'd
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And I was just a kid they all called his side
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day I looked up and he's pushing eighty
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brown tobacco stains all down his
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heroes of this
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why's he all dressed
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Drinking beer and playing Moon and Forty-
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day before he died I went to see him
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I was grown and he was almost
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closed our eyes and
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kitchen
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sang another
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verse to that old
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Come on Jack that son of a guns are com
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Desperados Waiting for a Train?
- The song Desperados Waiting for a Train was sang by The Highwaymen.
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