Key: C
Introduction: C
G
C
The painted desert
G
Can wait till summer
C
We've played this game of just imagine long enough
G
Wait 'till summer?
Bm7(11)
Em
D
When I'm sure the rains have ended, the blooms have gone,
Em
D
Everyone killed by the morning frost.
C
G
C
G
Is a cactus blooming there in every roadside stand
C
G
D
C
Where the big deal is cowboy gear sewn in Japan?
C
The painted desert
G
Can wait till summer
C
We've played this game of just imagine long enough
G
Wait 'till summer?
Bm7(11)
Em
D
When I'm sure the rains have ended, the blooms have gone,
Em
D
Everyone killed by the morning frost.
C
G
Is a cactus blooming there
C
G
Upon the northern rim
C
G
D
Or in the ruins of the Hopi Mesa dens?
Dm
F
C
You met a new friend in the canyon
Am
Or so you wrote
C
Am
On a blanket in the cooling sand
C
Am
You and your friend a-greed that
D
Dm
The stars were so many there
G
They seemed to overlap
C
The painted desert
G
Can wait till summer
C
We've played this game of just imagine long enough
G
Wait 'till summer?
Bm7(11)
Em
D
When I'm sure the rains have ended, the blooms have gone,
Em
D
Everyone killed by the morning frost.
C
G
Is a cactus blooming there
C
G
As you watched the native boy?
C
G
D
In flagstaff trailer court, you wrote the line
C
G
"He kicked a tumbleweed
C
G
And his mother called him home
C
G
Where the Arizona moon
D
Met the Arizona sun"
C
G
C
G
I wanted to be there by May at the latest time
C
G
D
Isn't that the plan we had or have you changed your mind?
C
G
C
G
I haven't heard a word from you since Phoenix or Tucson
C
G
D
April is over, will you tell me how long
C
Before I can be there?