Desperados Waiting for a Train by The Highwaymen Lyric and Guitar Chords

If you are looking for Desperados Waiting for a Train guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play Desperados Waiting for a Train by The Highwaymen using guitar or guitar.
This song by The Highwaymen can also be played by that instruments.
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Desperados Waiting for a Train guitar chords has rhythm and included in Highwayman (1985) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

Desperados Waiting for a Train by The Highwaymen Guitar Chords


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I played the
A
Red River
D
Valley C 2 G 2
He’d
A
sit in the kitchen and
Bm
cry
Run his
G
fingers through seventy years of
D
livin’
Bm
~
“I
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wonder, Lord, has every well I’ve drilled gone
A
dry?”
A
We were friends, me and this
D
old man
Like
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desperados waitin’ for a
G
train 2 3 4
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desperados waitin’ for a
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train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
D
He was a drifter, a
A
driller of
D
oil wells C 2 G 2
A
A
teacher, a schoolman of the
Bm
world 2 3 4
Let me
G
drive his car when he was too
D
drunk to
Bm
~
He’d
E
wink and give me money for the
A
girls
A
And our lives were like some old Western
D
movie
Like
Bm
desperados waitin’ for a
G
train 2 3 4
Like
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desperados waitin’ for a
G
train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
From the
D
time that I could
A
walk he’d take me
D
with him C 2 G 2
To a
A
bar called the Green Frog Caf-
Bm
e 2 3 4
Where
G
old men with beer guts and
D
dominoes
Bm
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Would
E
lie about their lives while they
A
played
A
And I was just a kid, they all called
D
”Sidekick”
Like
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desperados waitin’ for a
G
train 2 3 4
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desperados waitin’ for a
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train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
Well,
D
one day I looked
A
up and he’s pushin’
D
eighty C 2 G 2
A
Brown tobacco stains all down his
Bm
chin 2 3 4
To
G
me he was a hero of this
D
country
Bm
~
So
E
why’s he all dressed up like them old
A
men
A
Just drinkin’ beer and playin’ Moon and
D
Forty-two
Like
Bm
desperados waitin’ for a
G
train 2 3 4
Like
Bm
desperados waitin’ for a
G
train 2 3 4 A 2 3 4
The
D
day before he
A
died I went to
D
see him C 2 G 2
A
I was grown and he was almost
Bm
gone 2 3 4
But we
G
closed our eyes and dreamed us up a
D
kitchen
Bm
~
And
E
sang another verse to that old
A
song
(spoken)
A
Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-gun is
D
comin’
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desperados waitin’ for a
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train 2 3 4
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desperados waitin’ for a
G
train 2 3 4
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desperados waitin’ for a
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train 2 3 4
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desperados waitin’ for a
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train 2 3 4 Bm end

If you want to learn The Highwaymen Desperados Waiting for a Train guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play Desperados Waiting for a Train. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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