Steve Earle — 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