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