Desperados Waiting for a Train

[Verse]

I'd play the Red River Valley

He'd sit in the kitchen and cry

Run his fingers through seventy years of livin'

Wonder, "Lord, has every well I've ever drilled run dry?"

We was friends, me and this old man

[Chorus]

Like desperados waitin' for a train

Desperados waitin' for a train

[Verse]

He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells

And an old-school man of the world

He taught me how to drive his car when he's too drunk to

He'd wink and give me money for the girls

And our lives were like some old western movie

[Chorus]

Like desperados waitin' for a train

Desperados waitin' for a train

[Verse 3]

From the time that I could walk, he'd take me with him

To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe

There were old men with beer guts and dominoes

Just lying about their lives while they played

I was just a kid they called his sidekick

[Chorus]

Like desperados waitin' for a train

Desperados waitin' for a train

[Verse 4]

One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty

Brown tobacco stains all down his chin

To me, he's one of the heroes of this country

So why is he all dressed up like them old men?

Drinkin' beer, playin' Moon and Forty-Two

[Chorus]

Like desperados waitin' for a train

Desperados waitin' for a train

[Verse 5]

A day before he died, I went to see him

I was grown and he was almost gone

So we closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen

And sang another verse to that old song

"Come on, Jack, that son of a bitch is coming"

[Chorus]

Like desperados waitin' for a train

Desperados waitin' for a train

Desperados waitin' for a train

Desperados waitin' for a train