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 
       G#m       E 
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 
        E                F# 
He can miss her just the same 
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He has missed her in the forest 
          B                 F# 
While he showed her all the flowers 
        B                 F# 
And the branches sang the Chorus 
       B                  C#9 
As he climbed the scaley towers 
      G#m       E 
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 
         B              F# 
With her name on all his papers 
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Through the sharing of the profits 
         B                 C#9 
He will find it hard to shake her 
       G#m     E 
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 
          E               F# 
With his facts and figures scrawl 
       B                   F# 
She has brought them to her senses 
         B                  F# 
They have laughed inside her laughter 
         B              F# 
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 
          G#m 
There's a drummer and a dreamer 
          E              F# 
And you know there may be more 
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She will love them when she sees them 
           B               F# 
They will lose her if they follow 
         B               F# 
And she only means to please them 
         B                 C#9 
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