Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

 I'd play the red river valley

 and he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry

 and run his fingers through seventy years of livin'

 and wonder lord, has ever will our drill run dry

 we were friends me and this old man.

Chorus

 Like desperados waiting for a train,

 Like desperados waiting for a train

Verse 2

 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.(chorus)

Verse 3

 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

 lyin' 'bout their lives while they'd play

 and I was a kid they called his side kick.(chorus)

Verse 4

 One day I looked up and he's pushin eighty

 and there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin

 to me he's one of the heroes of this country

 so why's he all dressed up like them old men

 drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty Two.(chorus)

Verse 5

 The day before he died I went to see him

 I was grown and he was almost gone

 so we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen

 and sang another verse to that old song

 come on Jack, that son of a guns a-comin' (chorus 4x)

fade out on G at the end.

Hope you like it I played it by ear and got this. I think its the closest to the actual song.