C     G


[Chorus]
    C
The painted desert
              G
Can wait till summer
      C
We've played this game of just imagine long enough
           G
Wait 'till summer?


[Verse 1]
         Bm11                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?


[Chorus]
    C
The painted desert
              G
Can wait till summer
      C
We've played this game of just imagine long enough
           G
Wait 'till summer?


[Verse 2]
         Bm11                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?


[Bridge]
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


[Chorus]
C
   The painted desert
              G
Can wait till summer
      C
We've played this game of just imagine long enough
           G
Wait 'till summer?


[Verse 3]
         Bm11                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?