Remember The Mountain Bed Chords

Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

DDo you still sing of the Amountain bed we Gmade of limbs and leaves?

 Do you still sigh there near the sky where the Dholly berry Ableeds?

 You Bmlaughed as I covered youG over with leaves

 FEmace, breast, hips and Gthighs

DYou smiled when I said the Cleaves were Emjust the Gcolor of your Deyes

Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine

Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled woodbines twine

Trees held us in on all four sides

so thick we could not see

I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me

Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky

Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie

Your stomach moved beneath your shirt

and your knees were in the air

Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there

Below us the trees grew clumps of trees raised families of trees, and they

As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away

The sun was hot and the sun was bright

down in the valley below

Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go

There in the shade and hid from the sun we free'd our minds and learned

Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned

There on our mountain bed of leaves

we learned life's reason why

People laugh and love and dream, they fight and they hate to die

The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown

Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown

Your shape and form is dim, but plain

there on our mountain bed

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

I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams

To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas

I stand here filled with my emptiness now

and look at city and land

I know why farms and cities are built by hot warm nervous hands

I've crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears

I've crossed city and valley, desert and stream to bring my body here

My history and future blaze bright in me

and all my joy and pain

Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again

All this day long I linger here and on in through the night

My greeds, my joys, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight

My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled

I walk above all pain

Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again...