Desperados Waiting For A Train

[00:08.32] I'd play the Red River Valley
[00:14.98] And he'd sit in the kitchen and cry
[00:21.28] And run his fingers through 70 years of livin'
[00:28.80] And wonder, "Lord, has ever, well, I've drilled gone dry?"
[00:35.31] We was friends, me and this old man
[00:40.66] We was like desperados waiting for a train
[00:47.73] Like desperados waiting for a train
[00:58.36] Well, he's a drifter and a driller of oil wells
[01:05.42] And an old-school man of the world
[01:11.35] He taught me how to drive his car
[01:14.95] When he's too drunk to
[01:18.68] And he'd wink and give me money for the girls
[01:25.67] And our lives was like some old western movie
[01:31.06] Like desperados waiting for a train
[01:37.57] Like desperados waiting for a train
[01:48.06] From the time that I could walk, he'd take me with him
[01:55.12] To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
[02:01.41] And there was old men with beer guts and dominoes
[02:09.55] Lying 'bout their lives while they played
[02:16.04] And I was just a kid that they all called his sidekick
[02:21.08] We was like desperados waiting for a train
[02:27.95] Like desperados waiting for a train
[02:38.70] One day I looked up and he's pushin' 80
[02:45.42] And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin
[02:52.28] Well, to me he's one of the heroes of this country
[02:59.33] So why's he all dressed up like them old men?
[03:06.08] Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and 42
[03:10.95] Just like a desperado waiting for a train
[03:17.93] Like a desperado waiting for a train
[03:28.27] And then the day before he died, I went to see him
[03:35.97] I was grown and he was almost gone
[03:41.95] So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
[03:49.76] And sang another verse to that old song
[03:57.36] "Come on, Jack, that son of a bitch is coming"
[04:01.55] And we're desperados waiting for a train
[04:08.36] Like desperados waiting for a train
[04:15.12] Like desperados waiting for a train
[04:21.89] Like desperados waiting for a train
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