Remember The Mountain Bed

standard tuning capo 3rd fret 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 leaves Em G face , breast , hips and thighs D C Em G D you smiled when i said the leaves were just the color of your eyes D A G rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine D A bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled woodbines twine Bm G trees held us in on all four sides Em G so thick we could not see D C Em G D i could not see any wrong in you , and you saw none in me D A G your arm was brown against the ground , your cheeks part of the sky D A your fingers played with grassy moss , as limber you did lie Bm G your stomach moved beneath your shirt Em G and your knees were in the air D C Em G D your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there D A G below us the trees grew clumps of trees raised families of trees , and they D A as proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away Bm G the sun was hot and the sun was bright Em G down in the valley below D C Em G D where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go D A G there in the shade and hid from the sun we free’d our minds and learned D A our greatest reason for being here , our bodies moved and burned Bm G there on our mountain bed of leaves Em G we learned life’s reason why D C Em G D people laugh and love and dream , they fight and they hate to die D A G the smell of your hair i know is still there , if most of our leaves are blown D A our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown Bm G your shape and form is dim , but plain Em G there on our mountain bed D C Em G D i see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head D A G i learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams D A to conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas Bm G i stand here filled with my emptiness now Em G and look at city and land D C Em G D i know why farms and cities are built by hot warm nervous hands D A G i’ve crossed many states just to stand here now , my face all hot with tears D A i’ve crossed city and valley , desert and stream to bring my body here Bm G my history and future blaze bright in me Em G and all my joy and pain D C Em G D go through my head on our mountain bed where i smell your hair again D A G all this day long i linger here and on in through the night D A my greeds , my joys , my cravings , hopes , my dreams inside me fight Bm G my loneliness healed , my emptiness filled Em G i walk above all pain D C Em G D back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again . . .