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

[Break]
D  A  G   
G  D  A
Bm G Em G
D  C Em G D

[Verse 2]
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

[Break]
D C G D 

[Verse 3]
     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

[Break]
D x 3

[Verse4]
  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

[Break]
D x 3

[Verse 5]
D                      A                   G                              
There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed 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

[Break] (played softly)
D x 3

[Verse 6]
    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

[Break]
D C G D 

[Verse 7]
  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

[Break] (played softly)
D x 3

[Verse 8]
     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

[Break] (played softly)
D x 3

[ Verse 9]
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...