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VERSE 1
DO SOL
I'd play the Red River Valley,
LAm REm
and he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry.
RE FA FAm
And run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
DO SOL LAm
And wonder Lord, has every well I drilled run dry.
REm
We were friends me and this old man.
CHORUS
FA SOL
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
FA SOL
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
FA SOL
Like desperadoes waiting for a train,
FA FAm DO
Like desperadoes waiting for a train.
VERSE 2
DO SOL
He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells,
LAm REm
and an old school man of the world,
RE FA FAm
He'd let me drive his car when he's too drunk to,
DO SOL LAm
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls,
REm
And our lives was like some old western movie.
VERSE 3
DO SOL
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him,
LAm REm
to a bar called the Green Frog Cafe,
RE FA FAm
And there was old men with beer guts and dominoes,
DO SOL LAm
Lyin' 'bout their lives while they'd play,
REm
And I was just a kid they called his sidekick
VERSE 4
DO SOL
One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty,
LAm REm
And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin,
RE FA FAm
To me he's one of the heroes of this country,
DO SOL LAm
So why's he all dressed up like them old men,
REm
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty Two
VERSE 5
DO SOL
The day before he died I went to see him
LAm REm
I was grown and he was almost gone
RE FA FAm
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
DO SOL LAm
And sang another verse to that old song
REm
Come on Jack, that son of a bitch is a-coming.
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