Biography:
Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York, on 16 March 1942; died 23 October 2020) was an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known for writing the 1968 song "Mr. Bojangles".
During the late 1950s, Crosby was a member of a local Oneonta teen band called The Tones. The band traveled to Philadelphia to audition for Dick Clark's "American Bandstand", but were turned down. Members of the band found Dick Clark's
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- Mr. Bojangles
- Pissing In The Wind
- Backsliders Wine
- Broken Toys
- Charlie Dunn
- Couldnt Do Nothin Right
- Cowboy Boots And Bathing Suits
- Dear John Letter
- Dear John Letter Lounge
- Desperados Waiting For A Train
- Dont It Make You Wanna Dance
- Dust On My Boots
- Fading Lady
- Feel Like Hank Williams Tonite
- Flowers In The Snow
- Gettin By
- Getting By
- Gonzo Compadres
- Got Lucky Last Night
- Gringo In Belize
- Hairy Ass Hillbillies
- Hairy Ass Hillbilly
- Heart Of A Saturday Night
- Hill Country Rain
- I Feel Like Hank Williams
- I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight
- Its A Good Night For Singing
- Ive Got Boats To Build
- Jaded Lover
- La Freeway
- Leavin Texas
- Little Bird
- London Homesick Blues
- Love Changes Everything
- Mannys Hat Song
- Messin With Texas
- More Often Than Not
- Mr Bojangles
- Mr Bojangles On One Page
- My Old Man
- Navajo Rug
- No Roots In Ramblin
- Northeast Texas Women
- Old Beat Up Guitar
- Old Five And Dimers Like Me
- One Too Many Mornings
- Pickup Truck Song
- Please Let Me Be
- Pot Cant Call The Kettle Black
- Public Domain
- Railroad Lady
- Redneck Mother
- Rhythm Of The Rain
- Rockin Chair
- Rodeo Wind
- Sailing
- Sangria Wine
- Slim Chance And The Cant Hardly Playboys
- Some Go Home
- Song For The Life
- Stereo Chickens
- Stoney
- Takin It As It Comes
- That Old Beat Up Guitar
- The Dutchman
- The First Showboat
- The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder
- Viva Luchenbach
- What I Like About Texas
- Woman In Texas
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Desperados Waiting for a Train
By Jerry Jeff Walker
Written By Guy Clark
D A Bm
Yeah, I played the Red River Valley; he'd sit in the kitchen and cry
G A D Bm
Run fingers through seventy years of living
G A
And wonder if every well he'd drilled had gone dry
A D
We was friends, me and this old man
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
D
As soon as I could walk he'd take me with him
A Bm
To a place called the Green Frog Cafe
G A D Bm
There was old men with beer guts and dominoes
G A
Lying 'bout their lives while they played
A D
And I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
D
Yeah, he's a drifter, he's a driller of oil wells
A Bm
He's an old school man of the world
G A D
He taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to
G A
He'd wink and give me money for the girls
A D
And our lives was like some old Western movie
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
D
One day I looked up, and he's pushin' eighty
A Bm
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin
G A D
To me he was one of the heroes of this country
G A
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
A D
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-Two
Bm G
Like a desperado waiting for a train
Bm G
Like a desperado waiting for a train
D
The day before he died I went to see him
A Bm
Yeah, I was grown, and he was almost gone
G A D
We closed our eyes and we dreamed us up a kitchen
G A
We played another verse to that old song
(spoken)
"Yeah Jack, you know that son o' a bitch is comin'"
Bm G
Like desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Like desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Like desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Like desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
(fade out)
By Jerry Jeff Walker
Written By Guy Clark
D A Bm
Yeah, I played the Red River Valley; he'd sit in the kitchen and cry
G A D Bm
Run fingers through seventy years of living
G A
And wonder if every well he'd drilled had gone dry
A D
We was friends, me and this old man
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
D
As soon as I could walk he'd take me with him
A Bm
To a place called the Green Frog Cafe
G A D Bm
There was old men with beer guts and dominoes
G A
Lying 'bout their lives while they played
A D
And I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
D
Yeah, he's a drifter, he's a driller of oil wells
A Bm
He's an old school man of the world
G A D
He taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to
G A
He'd wink and give me money for the girls
A D
And our lives was like some old Western movie
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
D
One day I looked up, and he's pushin' eighty
A Bm
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin
G A D
To me he was one of the heroes of this country
G A
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
A D
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-Two
Bm G
Like a desperado waiting for a train
Bm G
Like a desperado waiting for a train
D
The day before he died I went to see him
A Bm
Yeah, I was grown, and he was almost gone
G A D
We closed our eyes and we dreamed us up a kitchen
G A
We played another verse to that old song
(spoken)
"Yeah Jack, you know that son o' a bitch is comin'"
Bm G
Like desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Like desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Like desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Like desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
Bm G
Desperados waiting for a train
(fade out)
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