These chords go with the version off Old No. 1. The F# is typically a walk down note, and doesn't have to be played. Similarly, the B in the first line is part of a walk down from C to A, and is just the note B. One of my favorite songs.. Enjoy! - jordan Guy Clark - Desperadoes waiting for a train D C B I'd play the red river valley A Bm and he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry G F# Em A D Bm and run his fingers through seventy years of livin' G F# Em A and wonder lord, has every well I've drilled run dry A D we were friends me and this old man. chorus: Bm G Like desperadoes waiting for a train, Bm G F# Em A Like desperadoes waiting for a train ---The rest of the song goes the same way--- He's a drifter, a driller of oil wells He's an old school man of the world He taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to And he'd wink and give me money for the girls And our lives was like, some old Western movie Like desperadoes waiting for a train Like desperadoes waiting for a train From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe There was old men with beer guts and dominoes Lying 'bout their lives while they played I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick" Just like desperadoes waiting for a train Like desperadoes waiting for a train One day I looked up and he was pushin' eighty There's brown tobacco stains all down his chin Well 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 Just like a desperado waiting for a train Like a desperado waiting for a train Then 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 of that old song "Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin'" And we're desperadoes waiting for a train Like desperadoes waiting for a train Like desperadoes waiting for a train Like desperadoes waiting for a train