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