Cactus Tree

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There's a man who's been out sailing
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In a decade full of dreams
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And he takes her to a schooner
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And he treats her like a queen
         G#m
Bearing beads from California
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With their amber stones and green
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He has called her from the harbor
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He has kissed her with his freedom
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He has heard her off to starboard
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In the breaking and the breathing
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Of the water weeds
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While she was busy being free
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There's a man who's climbed a mountain
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And he's calling out her name
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And he hopes her heart can hear
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Three thousand miles
           C#9
He calls again
        G#m
He can think her there beside him
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He can miss her just the same
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He has missed her in the forest
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While he showed her all the flowers
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And the branches sang the chorus
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As he climbed the scaley towers
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Of a forest tree
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While she was somewhere being free
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There's a man who's sent a letter
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And he's waiting for reply
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He has asked her of her travels

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Since the day they said goodbye
           G#m
He writes "Wish you were beside me
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We can make it if we try"

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He has seen her at the office
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With her name on all his papers
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Through the sharing of the profits
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He will find it hard to shake her
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From his memory
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And she's so busy being free
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There's a lady in the city
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And she thinks she loves them all
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There's the one who's thinking of her
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There's the one who sometimes calls
           G#m
There's the one who writes her letters
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With his facts and figures scrawl
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She has brought them to her senses
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They have laughed inside her laughter
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Now she rallies her defenses
         B                  C#9
For she fears that one will ask her
     G#m    E
For eternity
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And she's so busy being free
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There's a man who sends her medals
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He is bleeding from the war
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There's a jouster and a jester
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And a man who owns a store
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There's a drummer and a dreamer
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And you know there may be more
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She will love them when she sees them
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They will lose her if they follow
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And she only means to please them
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And her heart is full and hollow
        G#m      E
Like a cactus tree
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While she's so busy being free