Cactus Tree

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[Verse 1]
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 and 
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he treats her like a queen
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Bearing beads from California with
       C                F
 their amber stones and green
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He has called her from the harbour,
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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, and she was 
         C
busy being free


[Verse 2]
There's a man who's climbed a 
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mountain 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, he calls again
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He can think her there beside him,
        C                 F
 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 scaly towers
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Of a forest tree, while she was 
                  C
somewhere being free


[Verse 3]
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
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He writes, "Wish you were beside 
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me, we can make it if we try"
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He has seen her at the office, with
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 her name on all his papers
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Through the sharing of the 
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profits, he will find it hard to 
shake her
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From his memory, and she's so 
        C
busy being free


[Verse 4]
There's a lady in the city and she 
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thinks she loves them all
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There's the one who's thinking of 
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her, there's the one who sometimes 
calls
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There's the one who writes her 
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letters with his facts and figures
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 scrawl
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She has brought them to her senses,
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 they have laughed inside her 
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laughter
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Now she rallies her defences, for 
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she fears that one will ask her
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For eternity, and she's so busy 
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being free


[Verse 5]
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 and 
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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 
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them, they will lose her if they 
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follow
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And she only means to please them 
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and her heart is full and hollow
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Like a cactus tree, while she's so
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 busy being free
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Like a cactus tree, being free