[ti:Desperadoes Waiting For A Trai] [ar:Guy Clark] [al:The Essential Guy Clark] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Desperados Waiting For A Train - Guy Clark [00:07.50]I played the Red River Valley [00:11.80] [00:13.86]He'd sit in the kitchen and cry [00:18.12] [00:20.24]Run his fingers through seventy years of livin' [00:26.48] [00:27.54]"I wonder Lord has every well I've drilled gone dry" [00:32.35] [00:34.34]We were friends me and this old man [00:39.52]Like desperados waitin' for a train [00:43.95] [00:46.51]Desperados waitin' for a train [00:50.82] [00:56.87]Well he's a drifter an' a driller of oil wells [01:01.68] [01:03.92]And an old school man of the world [01:08.17] [01:09.97]He taught me how to drive his car when he w's too drunk to [01:14.92] [01:17.17]Oh and he'd wink and give me money for the girls [01:21.63] [01:24.06]An' our lives were like some old Western movie [01:29.24]Like desperados waitin' for a train [01:33.30] [01:35.54]Like desperados waitin' for a train [01:40.16] [01:46.21]An' from the time that I could walk he'd take me with him [01:50.46] [01:53.33]To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe [01:57.63] [01:59.57]An' there was old men with beer guts and dominos [02:05.87] [02:07.43]Oh an they're lying 'bout their lives while they played [02:11.49] [02:13.92]An' I was just a kid that they all called his sidekick [02:19.16]Like desperados waitin' for a train [02:23.38] [02:25.56]Like desperados waitin' for a train [02:30.61] [02:36.41]One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty [02:40.60] [02:43.22]An' he's brown tobacco stains all down his chin [02:47.64] [02:49.95]Well to me he's one of the heroes of this country [02:54.44] [02:56.94]So why's he all dressed up like them old men [03:01.82] [03:03.63]He's drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two [03:07.94] [03:08.81]Like a desperado waitin' for a train [03:12.93] [03:15.36]Like a desperado waitin' for a train [03:20.23] [03:25.84]An' then the day before he died I went to see him [03:30.21] [03:33.33]I was grown and he was almost gone [03:37.51] [03:39.26]So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen [03:44.49] [03:47.11]And sang another verse to that old song [03:51.36] [03:54.54]Come on Jack that son-of-a-b**ch is comin' [03:57.10] [03:58.91]We're like desperados waitin' for a train [04:03.15] [04:05.27]Like desperados waitin' for a train [04:09.89] [04:12.20]Like desperados waitin' for a train [04:16.50] [04:18.69]Like desperados waitin' for a train