Guitar(2f)RememberTheMountainBed
D A G Do you still sing of the mountain bed, we made of limbs and leaves? G D A Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds? Bm G Em G You laughed as I covered you over with leaves - face, breasts, hips, and thighs, D C Em G D 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 G D A Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine Bm G Em G Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see D C Em G D D C Em G D I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me D A G There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned G D A Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned Bm G Em G There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life's reason why D C Em G D D C Em G D The people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die D A G The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown G D A Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown Bm G Em G Your shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed D C Em G D D C Em G D I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head... D A G All this day long I linger here and on in through the night G D A My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight: Bm G Em G My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain D C Em G D D C Em G D Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again
Lyrics by Woodie Guthrie
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