(Capo 3rd fret)
        (verse)
                    D                              A                          G
               Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves?
                    G                                                                     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

               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
                                                                                                               D  C Em G  D

               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
                           and your knees were in the air
               Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there
                                                                                                                            D  C Em G  D

               Below us the trees grew clumps of trees raised families of trees, and they
               As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away
                       The sun was hot and the sun was bright
                           down in the valley below
               Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go
                                                                                                                           D  C Em G  D

               There in the shade and hid from the sun we free'd 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
                                                       *Solo*   (verse)

               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
                                                                                                                            D  C Em G  D

               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
                                                                                                                            D  C Em G  D

               I've crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears
               I've crossed city and valley, desert and stream to bring my body here
                       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
                                                                                                                               D  C Em G  D

               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 loneliness healed, my emptiness filled
                           I walk above all pain
               Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again...