Cactustown from Arizona Harbors by Nancy Louise Freeman

Cactustown
words & music (c) 1988, 2024 Nancy Louise Freeman

La la la .......

For Evan's sake,
Every step you take
Has you put your foot into another mistake
You have to fake.
Out of a clear blue sky, rain is difficult to shake
But in the land of dry water,
You can fool some of the people

Woo-hee,
Take advice from me:
Best to keep your head low when you've won on a technicality.
What you do on mountaintops is easy enough to see,
But even if it's Corbin-dated.
You can fool some of the people
You can fool come of the people

But when it rains in Cactustown
And sudden change comes storming 'round
The ship of state runs aground
The sinking rat must swim or drown
And when it snows in Cactustown
All blue noses turn to brown
The East coast trench coats put her down
But we made it stand in Cactustown

And when it rains in Cactustown
They tell us that we're beat before we're down
'Cause if they blow it hard enough, it just might blow away
Some people come to live here
(Some of them come to die here)
But no-one ever comes here to stay

Oooh-hoo,
My heart just bleeds for you
Your generals have got everything but the guts to see you're through.
Elba is a strange place, stranger than Havasu,
But in the land of golf and honey, you're still packin' 'em in,
Yeah still grinnin' that grin.

'Cause when it rains in Cactustown
And sudden change comes storming 'round
The ship of state runs aground
The sinking rat must swim or drown
And when it snows in Cactustown
All blue noses turn to brown
And when it rocks they all fall down
But we made it stand in Cactustown

When it rains in Cactustown
It rains, it pours, the old man snores...

• Folk
• acoustic folk
• filk
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