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Ya I've played the Red River Valley
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Sittin in the kitchen and cryed
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Run fingers through seventy years of livin
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And Wonder if everywhere the beer gone dry
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We was friends me and this old man

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Desperados waiting for a train
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Desperados waiting for a train

Soon as I could walk he'd take me with him
A place called the Green Rock Cafe
There was old men with beer guts and dominoes
Lying about their lives while they played
Now I was just a kid they all called me sidekick

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Ya he's a drifter, he's a driller of oil wells
He's an old school man of the world
He taught me how to drive his car when he's to drunk to
He'd wink and give me money for the girls
And our lives were like some old western movie

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One day I looked up and he was pushin eighty
Got brown tobacco stains all down his chin
And he's one of the hero's of this country
Now why is he dressed up like them old men
Just drinkin beer and playin moon and fourty two

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The day before he died I went to see him
Ya I was grown and he was almost gone
We closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
We played another verse to that old song
(Spoken) Ya Jack you know that son of a bitch is comin

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Desperados waiting for a train