"Remember The Mountain Bed"
                              F (133211@1)                              C (x32010@1)      	        Bb (x1333x@1) 
Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves? 
	Bb (x1333x@1)                                                             F (133211@1)       CDo (x32010@1)you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds? 
	  F (133211@1)BbYou (x1333x@1)laughed as I covered you over with leaves. Face, breast, hips, and thighs
                       FBb	                     FYou (133211@1)smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes 

	F (133211@1)                                C (x32010@1)      	        BbRosin (x1333x@1)smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine 
	BbF	CBitter (x32010@1)tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine 
	FBb
Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see 
	FBb	                         FI (133211@1)could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me 

	FC  	BbYour (x1333x@1)arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky 
	BbF	CYour (x32010@1)fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie 
	FBb
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air 
	FBb	FYour (133211@1)feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there 

	F (133211@1)                               C (x32010@1)                          	BbBelow (x1333x@1)us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they 
	BbF		CAs (x32010@1)proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away 
	FBb
The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below 
	FBb	FWhere (133211@1)people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go 

	FC	BbThere (x1333x@1)in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned 
	BbF	COur (x32010@1)greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned 
	FBb
There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life's reason why 
	FBb	FThe (133211@1)people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die 

	F (133211@1)CBb
The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown 
	BbF	COur (x32010@1)words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown 
	FBb
Your shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed 

	FBb	FI (133211@1)see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head... 

	FC		BbI (x1333x@1)learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams 
	FC
To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas 
	FBb
I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land 
	FBb	FAnd (133211@1)I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands 

	FC	BbI (x1333x@1)crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears 
	F (133211@1)CI (x32010@1)crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here 
	FBb
My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain 
	FBb	FGo (133211@1)through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again. 

	FC		BbAll (x1333x@1)this day long I linger here and on in through the night 
	FC
My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight: 
	FBb
My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain 
	FBb	F (133211@1) Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again