Remember the Mountain Bed - Jeff Tweedy and Billy Bragg (words by Woody Guthrie) Capo 3 D . A . G . . . Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves? . . . . D . A . . . Do you still sigh there 'neath 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 . . . You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes Rosin smells and / turpentine smells / from eucalyptus and pine Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where / tangled woodbines / twine Trees held us in on / all four sides / so thick we could not / see I could not see any / wrong in / you / and you saw none in / me Your arm was brown / against the ground / your cheeks part of the sky Your fingers played with grassy moss / as limber you did / lie Your stomach moved / beneath your shirt / your knees were in the / air Your feet played games with / mountain / roots as / you lay thinking / there There in the shade and / hid from the sun / we freed our minds and learned Our greatest reason for being here / our bodies moved and / burned There on our mountain / bed of leaves / we learned life's reason / why People laugh and / love and / dream, they / fight and they hate to / die The smell of your hair I / know is still there / if most of our leaves are blown Our words still ring in the brush and the trees / where singing seeds are / sown Your shape and form is / dim but plain / there on our mountain / bed I see my life was / brightest / where you / laughed and laid your / head I learned the reason why / man must work and / how to dream big dreams To conquer time and space and fight the / rivers and the / seas I stand here filled with my / emptiness now and / look at city and / land I know why farms and / cities are / built by / hot warm nervous / hands All this day long I / linger here and / on in through the night My greeds, my joys, my cravings, hopes / my dreams inside me / fight My history and future blaze / bright in me and / all my joy and / pain Go through my head on our / mountain / bed where I / smell your hair / again Intro: D A G e:--3----3---3---------0---0---2---------3------3----3---3-----3---3-------| B:--2----2---2---------2---3---2---------3------3----3---3-----3---3-------| G:--3----3---3---(0)---2---2---2---(0)---0------0----0---0-----0---0-------| D:--0h4--4---4---(0)---2---2---4---(0)---0------0----0---0-----0---0-------| A:--x----x---x---------0---0---0---(0)---0h2----2----2---2-----0---0h2-----| E:--x----x---x---------x---x---x---------3------3----3---3-----3---3-------| G D A e:-(3)------------------------------------------3-----------0--0--0--------| B:--0----0----0---------------------------------2-----------2--0--2--------| G:-(0)------------2----0----0h2---0-------------3-----------2--2--2--------| D:-(0)---------------------------------0---2----0-----------2--2--2--------| A:-(2)------------------------------------------------------0--0--0--------| E:-(3)---------------------------------------------------------------------| Bm G Em G e:---2----2---2----------3--------------------0-----------------------3----| B:---2h3--3---3----------3--------------------0-----------------------3----| G:---2h4--4---4----------0--------------------0---0-------------------0----| D:---2h4--4---4----------0--------------------2--------4----2----0----0----| A:---2----2---2----------0h2------------------2-----------------------2----| E:-----------------------3--------------------0-----------------------3----| D C Em G D e:--3------------------0--0---0--------0----x----3------------------3-----| (also used as fill) B:--2------------------1--1---1--------0----x----3------------------2-----| G:--3------------------0--0---0--------0---(0)---0------------------3-----| D:--0h4----------------0--0h2-0--------2---(0)---0----0--0h2--0-----0-----| A:--x------------------3--3---3--------2---(0)---0h2-------------2--------| E:--x------------------x---x--x--------0----x----3------------------------|