Cactus Tree Chords by Joni Mitchell

[Start]

[Verse]
Db B Db B
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              Db                          B                    
There's a man who's been out sailing in a decade full of dreams
       Db        B                    Gb                     
And he takes her to a schooner and he treats her like a queen
                   B               Gb          B               
Bearing beads from California with their amber stones and green
                  Gb             
He has called her from the harbor
       B               Gb         
He has kissed her with his freedom
       B             Gb          
He has heard her off to starboard
       B                Dbsus4           Gb    Dbsus4
In the breaking and the breathing of the water weeds 
Gb    B            Gb    B    Gb
While she was busy bein' free ■ 


[Chorus]
          Gb                          
There's a man who's climbed a mountain
         B                   
And he's calling out her name
       Gb        B                         Gb                  
And he hopes her heart can hear three zero miles he calls again
Gbsus4       B                           Gb                B   
He can think her there beside him he can miss her just the same


[Verse]
                         Gb    
He has missed her in the forest
         B                  Gb     
While he showed her all the flowers
        B             Gb        
And the branches sang the chorus
      B                             Gb     Dbsus4
As he climbed the scaly towers of a forest tree  
Gb        Gbsus4        Gb         B Gb
While she was somewhere bein' free ■ ■ 


[Chorus]
                                         B                
There's a man who sent a letter and he's waiting for reply
       Gb               B                 Gb                   
He has asked her of her travels since the day they said goodbye
          Gbsus4        B            Gb                  B  
He writes Wish you were beside me we could make it if we try


[Verse]
                   Gb        
He has seen her at the office
         B               Gb    
With her name on all his papers
            B              Gb     
Through the sharing of the profits
        B               Dbsus4         Gb    Dbsus4  
He will find it hard to shake her from these memories
Gb           Gbsus4 Gb        
And she's so busy   bein' free


[Chorus]
          Gb                                                
There's a lady in the city and she thinks she loves them all
                               B     
There's the one who's thinking of her
            Gb                     
There's the one who sometimes calls
                               B      
There's the one who writes her letters
         Gbmaj7 Gb  B             
With his facts  and figures scrawl


[Verse]
                        Gb        
She has brought them to her senses
          B              Gb          
They have laughed inside her laughter
        B           Gb      
Now she rallies her defenses
        B                   Dbsus4      Gb       Dbsus4
For she fears that one will ask her for eternity ■     
Gb        B       Gb        
And she's so busy bein' free
          Gb                      
There's a man who sends her medals
      Gb                   
He is bleeding from the war
          Gb                                             
There's a jouster and a jester and a man who owns a store


[Chorus]
                        Gbsus4 
There's a drummer and a dreamer
        Gb             B      
And you know there may be more
                        Gb           
She will love them when she sees them
          B           Gb         
They will lose her if they follow
        B          Gb            
And she only means to please them
        B             Dbsus4            Gb     Dbsus4
And her heart is full and hollow like a cactus tree  
Gbsus4         B    Gb    B    Gb
While she's so busy bein' free ■ 


[Outro]
              Dbsus4
Like a cactus tree  
B         
Bein' free
Gb B Gb B Gb
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[End]