Like Desperados Waiting for a Train

RCJames
RCJames Albuquerque, NM

 

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I’d play the Red River Valley

he’d sit in the kitchen and cry

run his fingers through seventy years of livin’

and’ wonder, Lord, has every well I’ve drilled gone dry?

we were friends, me and this old man

 

Like desperados waiting for a train

Like desperados waiting for a train

 

He’s a drifter, a driller of oil wells

he’s an old schoolman of the world

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

he’d wink and give me money for the girls

our lives were like some old western movie

 

Like desperados waiting for a train

Like desperados waiting for a train

 

From the time I could walk he’d take me with him

to a bar called the Green Frog Café

old men with beer guts and dominoes

lied about their lives while they played

I was just a kid, they all called me sidekick

 

Like desperados waiting for a train

Like desperados waiting for a train

 

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

brown tobacco stains all down his chin

to me he was a hero of this country

so why’s he all dressed up like them old men

drinkin’ beer and playin’ Moon an’ 42

 

Like desperados waitin’ for a train(4X)

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