D A G Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves?D A Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds?Bm G You laughed as I covered you over with leavesEm G Face, breast, hips and thighsD C Em G D You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes [Break]D A GG D ABm G Em GD C Em G D [Verse 2]D A G Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pineD A Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled woodbines twineBm G Trees held us in on all four sidesEm G So thick we could not seeD C Em G D I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me [Break]D C G D [Verse 3]D A G Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the skyD A Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lieBm G Your stomach moved beneath your shirtEm G And your knees were in the airD C Em G D Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there [Break]Continues after the adD x 3 [Verse4]D A G Below us the trees grew clumps of trees raised families of trees, and theyD A As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds awayBm G The sun was hot and the sun was brightEm G Down in the valley belowD C Em G D Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go [Break] D x 3 [Verse 5]D A G There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learnedD A Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burnedBm G There on our mountain bed of leavesEm G We learned life's reason whyD C Em G D People laugh and love and dream, they fight and they hate to die [Break] (played softly) D x 3 [Verse 6]D A G The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blownD A Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sownBm G Your shape and form is dim, but plainEm G There on our mountain bedD C Em G D I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head [Break]D C G D [Verse 7]D A G I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreamsD A To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seasBm G I stand here filled with my emptiness nowEm G And look at city and landD C Em G D I know why farms and cities are built by hot warm nervous hands [Break] (played softly) D x 3 [Verse 8]D A G I've crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tearsD A I've crossed city and valley, desert and stream to bring my body hereBm G My history and future blaze bright in meEm G And all my joy and painD C Em G D Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again [Break] (played softly) D x 3 [ Verse 9]D A G All this day long I linger here and on in through the nightD A My greeds, my joys, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fightBm G My loneliness healed, my emptiness filledEm G I walk above all painD C Em G D Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again...
Remember The Mountain Bed
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