Текст The Highwaymen – Desperados Waiting For A Train

Kristofferson
I played the Red River Valley
And he’d sit out in the kitchen and cry
An’ run his fingers through 70 years of livin’

All
Like desperados waiting for a train
Like desperados waiting for a train

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

All
Like desperados waiting for a train
Like desperados waiting for a train

Nelson
From the time that I could walk, he’d take me with him
To a bar, called the Green Frog Cafe
And there were old men, with beer-guts and dominoes
Lying about their lives while they play
And I was just a kid, they called his sidekick

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Like desperados waiting for a train
Like desperados waiting for a train

Cash
One day I looked up, and he’s pushing 80
And there’s brown tobacco stains all down his chin

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Like desperados waiting for a train
Like desperados waiting for a train

Nelson
The day before he died, I went to see him
I was grown, and he was almost gone
Cash
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed of supper kitchens
And sang another verse to that old song
Jennings spoken
Come on Jack, that son-of-a-gun’s a-comin’.

All
Like desperados waiting for a train
Like desperados waiting for a train
Like desperados waiting for a train
Like desperados waiting for a train