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Desperadoes Waiting For A Train
I’d play the Red River Valley Like desperados waitin’ for a train
And he’d sit out in the kitchen and cry Like desperados waitin’ for a train
And run his fingers through seventy years of livin’ Like desperados waitin’ for a train
And wonder, “Lord, has ever’ Like desperados waitin’ for a train
well I’ve drilled run dry?”
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We were friends, me and this old man Songwriters: Guy Clark
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And an old school man of the world
He let me drive his car here are many more popular, and there’s some
When he’s too drunk to Tmore poetic. But few know how to “craft” a
song like Guy Clark. Take a survey of songwriters
And he’d wink and give me money for the girls themselves, and Guy would be at the top of nearly
And our lives were like some old western movie everyone’s list as the best ever.
Like desperados waitin’ for a train
Like desperados waitin’ for a train Guy Charles Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17,
2016) was an American folk singer, musician,
From the time that I could walk songwriter, recording artist, performer and
he’d take me with him luthier. He released more than twenty albums,
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe and his songs have been recorded by other artists
There were old men with beer guts and dominos including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Kathy
Lying ‘bout their lives while they’d played Mattea, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner,
Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Johnny Cash and
And I was just a kid Willie Nelson. He won the 2014 Grammy Award
They all called his “Sidekick” for Best Folk Album: My Favorite Picture of You.
Like desperados waitin’ for a train
Like desperados waitin’ for a train Clark was born in Monahans, Texas. His family
moved to Rockport, Texas in 1954. After he
One day I looked up and he’s pushin’ eighty graduated from high school in 1960, Guy spent
And there’s brown tobacco stains all down his chin almost a decade in Houston as part of the folk
To me he’s one of the heroes of this country music revival in that city. He and his wife
So why’s he all dressed up like them old men Susanna Clark eventually settled in Nashville,
where he helped create the Americana music
Drinkin’ beer and playin’ Moon and Forty-two genre. His songs “L.A. Freeway” and “Desperados
Like desperados waitin’ for a train Waiting for a Train” helped launch his career and
Like desperados waitin’ for a train were covered by numerous performers. On his
passing the New York Times described him as “a
A day before he died, I went to see him king of the Texas troubadours”, declaring his body
I was grown and he was almost gone of work “as indelible as that of anyone working
So we just closed our eyes in the Americana idiom in the last decades of the
and dreamed us up a kitchen 20th century”
And sang another verse to that old song
“Come on, Jack, that son of a guns are comin’ “ (Source Wikipedia)
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