"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
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb 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
Bb (x1333x@1)name="chord_133211@1">F CBitter (x32010@1)tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb
Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb FI (133211@1)could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me
F (133211@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C BbYour (x1333x@1)arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky
Bb (x1333x@1)name="chord_133211@1">F CYour (x32010@1)fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb 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
Bb (x1333x@1)name="chord_133211@1">F CAs (x32010@1)proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb
The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb FWhere (133211@1)people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go
F (133211@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C BbThere (x1333x@1)in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned
Bb (x1333x@1)name="chord_133211@1">F COur (x32010@1)greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb
There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life's reason why
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb FThe (133211@1)people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die
F (133211@1)C (x32010@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb
The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown
Bb (x1333x@1)name="chord_133211@1">F COur (x32010@1)words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb
Your shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb FI (133211@1)see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head...
F (133211@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C BbI (x1333x@1)learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams
F (133211@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C
To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb
I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb FAnd (133211@1)I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands
F (133211@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C 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
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb
My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb FGo (133211@1)through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.
F (133211@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C BbAll (x1333x@1)this day long I linger here and on in through the night
F (133211@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C
My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight:
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb
My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain
F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb F (133211@1) Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again
