Apache Plume

©1996 Sandra L. Reay

Colorado Sandstorm Music,B.M.I.

chorus 1	There was a time when the desert was in bloom
	Moonlight shone on Apache Plume
	We fell in love beneath the strawberry moon
	There was a time when the desert was in bloom
1.	Hand in hand, we picked a careful way
	Through prickly pear and yellow blossom sage
	You kissed me there, underneath the laughing stars
	And a wonderland of sand and stone was ours
chorus 1
2.	The summer sun grew too hot to bear
	I closed my eyes to protect them from the glare
	The blossoms died, vanished in the shifting sands
	Like the love you gave me vanished from my hands
chorus 2	There was a time when the desert was in bloom
	Moonlight shone on Apache Plume
	The cactus wren sings a mournful tune
	There was a time when the desert was in bloom
chorus 1
coda	There was a time when the desert was in bloom

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"I went to a garage sale on Apache Plume Street and started playing with the soft rhyme: Plume and moon. I wanted to write a moon-June-spoon song without using any of those words. The 'strawberry moon' is the first moon in June. So, I was able to skip 'June' and 'spoon'." — San