Wild Juanita's Cactus Juice
By Kaitlin Butts
Written by Kaitlin Butts
Album: Roadrunner! (2024)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle 10/20/2024

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Out in the middle of BFE
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Somewhere south of rural route three
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Is the sight of something legendary
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It’s Wild Juanita’s roadside stand

In a lean-two shack by an old garage
With a fruit stand out front for camouflage
And you might think it’s just a mirage
But I’ll tell you first hand  … that it isn’t

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There are buckets of plums
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And shelves full of jelly
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And canned fruit salsa to put in your belly
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But the best kept secret is not the produce, it’s wild Juanita’s cactus juice
 

Chorus:
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Wild Juanita’s Cactus juice
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Got y’all feelin’ all loosey goosey
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Make enemies call a truce
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It’ll make you feel good but you don’t have to fear it
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It enlivens your body, mind and spirit
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Wild Juanita’s cactus juice, it just might save the world

 
In the back she’s cookin’ up a brand new batch
Homegrown organic from the paddle patch
With a little bit of this and a lot a bit of that
She’s never written down the recipe

Juanita’s no shaman with the rattle stick
No floral waters to sprankle you with
Juanita’s just an old recluse
But by golly she’ll sell you her cactus juice

 
Chorus

Fiddle Solo - C  G  C  G  C

You can chug from a jug or sip it from a straw
It’ll make you see things that you never saw
It might even make you like your mother in law
It just might save the world

Chorus