Desperados Waiting For A Train Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

I'dD play the reAd river vaDlley

and Ahe'd sit out in the kitchen andD cry

and rGun his fingers through seventy years oDf livin'

and wonder Glord, has ever will our drill run Adry

we were frA7iends me and this old mDan.

Chorus

Like Bmdesperados waiting for a tGrain,

Like Bmdesperados waiting for a tGrain Em A7

Verse 2

He's a Ddrifter and a dAriller of oil weDlls

and an oAld school man of the wDorld

He'd lGet me drive his car when he's too dDrunk to

and he'd Gwink and give me money for the gAirls

and our A7lives were like some old western Dmovie.(chorus)

Verse 3

From the Dtime that I could wAalk he'd take me withD him

to a Abar called the Green Frog DCafe

and there were Gold men with beer guts and Ddominoes

lyGin' 'bout their lives while they'dA play

and A7I was a kid they called his siDde kick.(chorus)

Verse 4

One Dday I looked Aup and he's pushin Deighty

and theAre's brown tobacco stains all down hisD chin

to Gme he's one of the heroes of this Dcountry

so whyG's he all dressed up like them old Amen

drinkin' A7beer and playin' Moon and Forty DTwo.(chorus)

Verse 5

The Dday before he diAed I went to seDe him

I was Agrown and he was almost Dgone

so we jGust closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kDitchen

and sGang another verse to that old Asong

come on JAack, that son of a guns a-comin' D (chorus 4x)

fade out on G at the end.

Hope you like it I played it by ear and got this. I think its the closest to the actual song.