D C G I'd play the red river valley A D and he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry G E
There was a fellow who stayed at her hotel who was almost like a grandfather to me, except that he was my grandmother’s boyfriend.When he died, I wrote “Desperados Waiting for a Train.” He was a wildcatter and worked in the oil fields in West Texas.
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We's like desperados waitin' for a train Desperados waitin' for a train.
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
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I’d drive his car sometimes if he got too drunk.
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Sometimes he’d give me money, and he taught me how to drive.
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