Key: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Do you still sing of the mountain bed
Do you still sigh there near the sky
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where the holly berry bleeds?
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Face, breast, hips, and thighs
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Em
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You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your
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eyes
Interlude 1
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G
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Bm
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Em
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D
Verse 2
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Rosin smells and turpentine smells
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where
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tangled wood vines twine
Bm
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Trees held us in on all four sides
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so thick we could not see
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C
Em
I could not see any wrong in you,
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and you saw none in me
Interlude 2
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Em
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Verse 3
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Your arm was brown against the ground,
Your fingers played with grassy moss,
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as limber you did lie
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Your stomach moved beneath your shirt
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and your knees were in the air
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C
Your feet played games with mountain
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D
roots as you lay thinking there
Verse 4
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Below us the trees grew clumps of trees,
As proud as we tossed their heads in the
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wind and flung good seeds away
Bm
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The sun was hot and the sun was bright
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down in the valley below
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Where people starved and hungry for
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life so empty come and go
Verse 5
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There in the shade and hid from the sun we
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freed our minds and learned
Our greatest reason for being here,
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our bodies moved and burned
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There on our mountain bed of leaves
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we learned life's reason why
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The people laugh and love and dream,
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they fight, they hate to die
Verse 6
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The smell of your hair I know is still there,
Our words still ring in the brush and the trees
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where singing seeds are sown
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Your shape and form is dim but plain,
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there on our mountain bed
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Em
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I see my life was brightest where you laughed
Interlude 3
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Verse 7
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I learned the reason why man must work
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and how to dream big dreams
To conquer time and space and
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fight the rivers and the seas
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I stand here filled with my emptiness
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now and look at city and land
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And I know why farms and cities are built by hot,
Verse 8
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I crossed many states just to stand here now,
I crossed city, and valley, desert,
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and stream, to bring my body here
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My history and future blaze bright
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in me and all my joy and pain
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Go through my head on our mountain
Interlude 4
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Verse 9
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All this day long I linger here and
Bm
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on in through the night
My greed's, desires, my cravings,
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hopes, my dreams inside me fight
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My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled,
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I walk above all pain
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Back to the breast of my woman and child
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to scatter my seeds again
Outro 1
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Em
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