The painted desert can wait till summer   We've played this game of 'just imagine' long enough, wait till summer   When I'm sure the rain has ended, the blooms have gone   Everyone killed by the morning frost   Is a cactus blooming there in every roadside stand   Where the big deal this cowboy gear sewn in Japan?      The painted desert can wait till summer   We've played this game of just imagine long enough, wait till summer   When I'm sure the rain has ended the blooms have gone   Everyone killed by the morning frost   Is a cactus blooming there upon the northern rim   Or in the ruins of the Hopi Mesa dens?      You met a new friend in the Canyon or so you wrote   On a blanket in the cooling sand you and your friend agreed   That the stars were so many there, they seemed to overlap      The painted desert can wait till summer   We've played this game of just imagine long enough, wait till summer   When I am sure the rain has ended, the blooms have gone   Everyone killed by the morning frost   Was a cactus blooming there as you watched the native boy?   In a flagstaff trailor court, you wrote the line   'He kicked a tumbleweed and his mother called him home   Where the Arizona moon met the Arizona sun'      I wanted to be there by may at the latest time   Isn't that the plan we had or have you changed your mind?   I haven't read a word from you since Phoenix or Tucson   April is over will you tell me how long before I can be there?