[Kris Kristofferson] I'd play the Red River Valley And he'd sit in the kitchen and cry And run his fingers through seventy years of livin' And wonder: Lord, has ever' well I drilled run dry? We were friends, me and this old man Like desperados waiting for a train Like desperados waiting for a train [Waylon Jennings] He's a drifter, a driller of oil wells And an old-school man of the world He let me drive his car when he's too drunk to And he'd wink and give me money for the girls And our lives were like some old western movies Like desperados waiting for a train Like desperados waiting for a train [Willie Nelson] From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him To a bar called the green frog cafe And there were old men with beer guts and dominos Lyin' 'bout their lives while they played And I was just a kid, they all called his sidekick Like desperados waiting for a train Like desperados waiting for a train [Johnny Cash] One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin To me he's one of the heroes of this country So why's he all dressed up like them old men? Drinkin' beer and playin' moon and forty-two Like desperados waiting for a train Like desperados waiting for a train [Willie Nelson] The day before he died I went to see him I was grown and he was almost gone [Johnny Cash] So, we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen And sang another verse to that old song Come on, jack, that son-of-a-gun's a-comin' Like desperados waiting for a train Like desperados waiting for a train Like desperados waiting for a train Like desperados waiting for a train