Desperados Waiting for a Train
G. Clark (as done by J.J. Walker)


  C
I played the Red River Valley
G                           Am
He sat in the kitchen and cried
        F                        C
Ran his fingers through seventy years of living
F                                       G
Wondered if every well he drilled ran dry
                                   C
And I was just a kid, me and this old man


From the time that I could walk, heÕd take me with him
     G                                   Am
To a place they called the Green Frog Cafe
           F                            C
There were old men with beer guts and dominos
F                                    G
LyinÕ Ôbout their lives while they played
                                           C
And I was just a kid, they all called me sidekick

     Am         G             F
Like desperados waiting for a train   (2x)


Now heÕs a drifter, heÕs a driller of oil wells
HeÕs an old school man of the world
Taught me how to drive his car when heÕs too drunk to
HeÕd wink and give me money for the girls
And our lives were like some old western movie

Refrain

Next time I looked around heÕs pushinÕ eighty
HeÕs got brown tobacco stains all down his chin
But to me heÕs one of the the heroes of this country
So whyÕs he all dressed up like them old men
Just drinkinÕ beer, playinÕ pool and forty-two

Refrain

Well the day before he died I went to see him
I was grown, he was almost gone
Well we closed our eyes and dreamt of that kitchen
Then we sang another verse of that old song
And I was just a kid, me and this old man

Refrain; end on F