verse 1
I'd play the red river valley
and he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry
and run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
and wonder lord, has ever will our drill run dry
we were friends me and this old man.
chorus:
Like desperados waiting for a train,
Like desperados waiting for a train
verse 2
He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells
and an old school man of the world
He'd 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 movie.(chorus)
verse 3
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
to a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
and there were old men with beer guts and dominoes
lyin' 'bout their lives while they'd play
and I was a kid they called his side kick.(chorus)
verse 4
One day I looked up and he's pushin eighty
and there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin
to me he's one of the heroes of this country
so why's he all dressed up like them old men
drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty Two.(chorus)
verse 5
The day before he died I went to see him
I was grown and he was almost gone
so we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
and sang another verse to that old song
come on Jack, that son of a guns a-comin' (chorus 4x)
fade out on G at the end.
Hope you like it I played it by ear and got this. I think its the closest to the actual song.