Halaman ini menampilkan susunan chord dan lirik lagu dengan nada dasar C. Berikut adalah panduan bagian demi bagian untuk memainkan lagu tersebut:
Intro
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]
Chorus
[ch]C[/ch]
The painted desert
[ch]G[/ch]
Can wait till summer
[ch]C[/ch]
We’ve played this game of just imagine long enough
[ch]G[/ch]
Wait ’till summer?
Verse 1
[ch]Bm11[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]
When I’m sure the rains have ended, the blooms have gone,
[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]
Everyone killed by the morning frost.
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]
Is a cactus blooming there in every roadside stand
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]
Where the big deal is cowboy gear sewn in Japan?
Chorus
[ch]C[/ch]
The painted desert
[ch]G[/ch]
Can wait till summer
[ch]C[/ch]
We’ve played this game of just imagine long enough
[ch]G[/ch]
Wait ’till summer?
Verse 2
[ch]Bm11[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]
When I’m sure the rains have ended, the blooms have gone,
[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]
Everyone killed by the morning frost.
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]
Is a cactus blooming there
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]
Upon the northern rim
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]
Or in the ruins of the Hopi Mesa dens?
Bridge
[ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]
You met a new friend in the canyon
[ch]Am[/ch]
Or so you wrote
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]
On a blanket in the cooling sand
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]
You and your friend a-greed that
[ch]D[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]
The stars were so many there
[ch]G[/ch]
They seemed to overlap
Chorus
[ch]C[/ch]
The painted desert
[ch]G[/ch]
Can wait till summer
[ch]C[/ch]
We’ve played this game of just imagine long enough
[ch]G[/ch]
Wait ’till summer?
Verse 3
[ch]Bm11[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]
When I’m sure the rains have ended, the blooms have gone,
[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]
Everyone killed by the morning frost.
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]
Is a cactus blooming there
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]
As you watched the native boy?
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]
In flagstaff trailer court, you wrote the line
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]
“He kicked a tumbleweed
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]
And his mother called him home
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]
Where the Arizona moon
[ch]D[/ch]
Met the Arizona sun”
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]
I wanted to be there by May at the latest time
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]
Isn’t that the plan we had or have you changed your mind?
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]
I haven’t heard a word from you since Phoenix or Tucson
[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]
April is over, will you tell me how long
[ch]C[/ch]
Before I can be there?
