Wilco - 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 . . .