Desperados Waiting for a Train

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I'd play the Red River Valley
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And he'd sit out in the kitchen and
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 cry
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Run his fingers through seventy 
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years of livin'
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And wonder, Lord, has every well I
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 drilled run dry
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We were friends, me and this old man

[Chorus]
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train
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Like desperadoes waiting for a 
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train

[Verse 2]
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He's a drifter and a driller of oil 
wells
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And an old school man of the world
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He'd let me drive his car when 
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he's too drunk to
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And he'd wink and give me money 
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for the girls
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And our lives was like some old 
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western movie

[Chorus]
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train
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Like desperadoes waiting for a 
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train

[Verse 3]
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From the time that I could walk he'd
 take me with him
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To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
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And there was old men with beer 
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guts and dominoes
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Lyin' about their lives while 
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they'd play
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And I was just a kid, they called 
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me Sidekick

[Chorus]
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train
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Like desperadoes waiting for a 
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train

[Verse 4]
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One day I looked up and he's pushin'
 eighty
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Brown tobacco stains all down his 
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chin
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To me he's one of the heroes of 
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this country
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So why's he all dressed up like 
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them old men
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Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and 
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Forty Two

[Chorus]
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train
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Like desperadoes waiting for a 
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train

[Verse 5]
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The day before he died I went to see
 him
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I was grown and he was almost gone
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So we just closed our eyes and 
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dreamed us up a kitchen
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And sang another verse to that old 
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song
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Come on, Jack, that son of a bitch 
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is coming

[Chorus]
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train
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Like desperadoes waiting for a train
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Like desperadoes waiting for a 
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train