Desperados Waiting For A Train (Red River Valley) Songtext

From this valley they say you are going We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile For they say you are taking the sunshine That has brightened our path for a while Come and sit by my side if you love me Do not hasten to bid me adieu But remember the Red River Valley And the one who has loved you so true I play the Red River Valley And he'd sit in the kitchen and cry He'd run his fingers through seventy some all years of hard livin' Wondering, "Lord, has every well I drilled run dry?" We was friends, me and this old man Like desperados waiting for a train Just like desperados waiting for a train He was a drifter, a driller of them oil wells An old school man of the world He taught me how to drive his car when he's too drunk to And then he'd wink and give me money for the girls Our lives was just like some old Western movie Like desperados waiting for a train Just like desperados waiting for a train When I was old enough to walk he'd take me with him To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe Where the old men with beer guts and dominoes And they would lie about their lives while they played Well I was just a kid but they all called me "Sidekick" Just like a desperado waiting for a train Just like a desperado waiting for a train One day I looked up and he was pushin' eighty And there was 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 just like them old men Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two Just like a desperado waiting for a train Just like a desperado waiting for a train Well the day before he died I went to see him I was grown, he was almost gone So we just closed our eyes and we dreamed us up a kitchen And then we sang another verse from that old song (Come on, Jack, that ol' son-of-a-bitch is comin') We're desperados waiting for a train Just like desperados waiting for a train We are desperados waiting for a train Just like desperados waiting for a train