Remember The Mountain Bed

                              F  
Do you still sing of the mountain 
                              C    
bed we made of limbs and leaves?
                   Bb

        Bb                         
Do you still sigh there near the 
sky where the holly berry bleeds?
       F         C

          F             Bb
You laughed as I covered you over 
with leaves. Face, breast, hips, and
 thighs
                       F        Bb
You smiled when I said the leaves 
                          F
were just the color of your eyes

        F                          
Rosin smells and turpentine smells 
        C                   Bb
from eucalyptus and pine
        Bb      F      C
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed 
where tangled wood vines twine
        F       Bb
Trees held us in on all four sides 
so thick we could not see
        F       Bb                
I could not see any wrong in you, 
              F
and you saw none in me

        F       C      Bb
Your arm was brown against the 
ground, your cheeks part of the sky
        Bb      F      C
Your fingers played with grassy 
moss, as limber you did lie
        F       Bb
Your stomach moved beneath your 
shirt and your knees were in the air
        F       Bb     F
Your feet played games with mountain
 roots as you lay thinking there

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        F                        
Below us the trees grew clumps of 
               C                   
trees, raised families of trees, 
           Bb
and they
        Bb      F              C
As proud as we tossed their heads in
 the wind and flung good seeds away
        F       Bb
The sun was hot and the sun was 
bright down in the valley below
        F       Bb     F
Where people starved and hungry for 
life so empty come and go

        F       C      Bb
There in the shade and hid from the 
sun we freed our minds and learned
        Bb      F      C
Our greatest reason for being here, 
our bodies moved and burned
        F       Bb
There on our mountain bed of leaves 
we learned life's reason why
        F       Bb     F
The people laugh and love and dream,
 they fight, they hate to die

        F               C      Bb
The smell of your hair I know is 
still there, if most of our leaves 
are blown
        Bb      F      C
Our words still ring in the brush 
and the trees where singing seeds 
are sown
        F       Bb
Your shape and form is dim but 
plain, there on our mountain bed

        F       Bb     F
I see my life was brightest where 
you laughed and laid your head...

        F       C              Bb
I learned the reason why man must 
work and how to dream big dreams
        F       C
To conquer time and space and fight 
the rivers and the seas
        F       Bb
I stand here filled with my 
emptiness now and look at city and 
land
        F       Bb     F
And I know why farms and cities are 
built by hot, warm, nervous hands

        F       C      Bb
I crossed many states just to stand 
here now, my face all hot with tears
        F               C
I crossed city, and valley, desert, 
and stream, to bring my body here
        F       Bb
My history and future blaze bright 
in me and all my joy and pain
        F       Bb     F
Go through my head on our mountain 
bed where I smell your hair again.

        F       C              Bb
All this day long I linger here and 
on in through the night
        F       C
My greeds, desires, my cravings, 
hopes, my dreams inside me fight:
        F       Bb
My loneliness healed, my emptiness 
filled, I walk above all pain
        F       Bb     F
  Back to the breast of my woman and
 child to scatter my seeds again