Remember The Mountain Bed by Billy Bragg And Wilco "Remember The Mountain Bed" F C Bb Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves? Bb F C Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds? F Bb You laughed as I covered you over with leaves. Face, breast, hips, and thighs F Bb F You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes F C Bb Rosin smells and turpentine smells 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 F I could not see any wrong in you, 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 F C Bb Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, 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 www.TAB6.com