{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":698578,"song":"Remember The Mountain Bed","artist":"Billy Bragg","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11582225-remember-the-mountain-bed-chords-by-billy-bragg/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/698578?type=chord","rating":3.86831,"votes":7,"content":"\"Remember The Mountain Bed\"\r\n[tab]                              [ch]F[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]Bb[/ch]     \r\nDo you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves? [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bb[/ch]                                                                    [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDo you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds? [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nYou laughed as I covered you over with leaves. Face, breast, hips, and thighs[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]Bb[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nYou smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nRosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bb[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nTrees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nYour arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bb[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYour fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nYour stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nYour feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                                       [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nBelow us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bb[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nThe sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhere people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nThere in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bb[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOur greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nThere on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life's reason why [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nThe smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bb[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOur words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nYour shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head... [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nI learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nI stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nI crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nMy history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nGo through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nAll this day long I linger here and on in through the night [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight: [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nMy loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again[/tab]","plain_text":"\"Remember The Mountain Bed\"","chords":["F","C","Bb"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]}}}