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