Wilco/Woody Guthrie Remember our Mountain bed From Patrick Corbett (patrick.corbett@reuters.com) Thanks to Patrick!!! 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, 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 G D A Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled woodvines twine Bm G Em G Trees held us in on all four sides 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 G D A As your fingers played with grassy moss, and limber you did lie Bm G Em G Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air D C Em G D Your feet played games with the mountain roots as you lay thinking there D A G Below us the trees grew clumps of trees raised on families of trees and they G D A As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away Bm G Em G The sun was hot and the sun was bright 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 is 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 The people laugh and love and dream, they fight , they hate to die D A G The smell of you hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves have blown G D A Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where the 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 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 dream big dreams G D A To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas Bm G Em G I stand here with my emptiness now and look at city and land D C Em G D And I know why farms and cities are built by, hot, warm nervous hands D A G I crossed many states just to stand here now my face all hot with tears G D A I crossed city, and valley, desert and stream, to bring my body here Bm G Em G My history and future blaze bright in me 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 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 Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again