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?