[00:01.07]Desperadoes Waiting For A Train - Guy Clark
[00:07.50]I played the Red River Valley.
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[00:13.86]He'd sit in the kitchen and cry.
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[00:20.24]Run his fingers through seventy years of livin'.
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[00:27.54]"I wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry?".
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[00:34.34]We were friends, me and this old man,
[00:39.52]Like desperados waitin' for a train.
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[00:46.51]Desperados waitin' for a train.
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[00:56.87]Well, he's a drifter an' a driller of oil wells.
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[01:03.92]And an old school man of the world.
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[01:09.97]He taught me how to drive his car when he w's too drunk to.
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[01:17.17]Oh, and he'd wink and give me money for the girls.
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[01:24.06]An' our lives were like, some old Western movie,
[01:29.24]Like desperados waitin' for a train.
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[01:35.54]Like desperados waitin' for a train.
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[01:46.21]An' from the time that I could walk, he'd take me with him,
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[01:53.33]To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe.
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[01:59.57]An' there was old men with beer guts and dominos.
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[02:07.43]Oh, an they're lying 'bout their lives while they played.
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[02:13.92]An' I was just a kid, that they all called his sidekick,
[02:19.16]Like desperados waitin' for a train.
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[02:25.56]Like desperados waitin' for a train.
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[02:36.41]One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty.
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[02:43.22]An' he's brown tobacco stains all down his chin.
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[02:49.95]Well, to me he's one of the heroes of this country,
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[02:56.94]So why's he all dressed up like them old men?
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[03:03.63]He's drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two.
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[03:08.81]Like a desperado waitin' for a train.
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[03:15.36]Like a desperado waitin' for a train.
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[03:25.84]An' then the day before he died, I went to see him,
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[03:33.33]I was grown and he was almost gone.
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[03:39.26]So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen,
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[03:47.11]And sang another verse to that old song.
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[03:54.54]Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin'.
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[03:58.91]We're like desperados waitin' for a train
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[04:05.27]Like desperados waitin' for a train.
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[04:12.20]Like desperados waitin' for a train.
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[04:18.69]Like desperados waitin' for a train.