Billy Bragg Remember the Mountain bed Lyrics:
Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of
limbs and leaves: Do you still sigh there near the
sky where the holly berry bleeds: You laughed as I
covered you over with leaves, face, breast, hips
and thighs, 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 woodvines 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.

Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks
part of the sky, As your fingers played with
grassy moss, and limber did you 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.

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.

There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed
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
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reason why The People laugh and love and dream,
they fight, they hate to die.

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...

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
And I know why farms and cities are built by hot,
warm, nervous hands.

I crossed many states just to stand here now, my
face all hot with tears, I 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.

All this day long I linger here and on in through
the night My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes,
my dreams inside me fight: My loneliness healed,
my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain Back to
the breasts of my woman and child to scatter my
seeds again.

WORDS: Woody Guthrie (1944) - MUSIC: Jeff
Tweedy/Jay Bennett (1999)

LEROY BACH: piano JAY BENNETT: organ, nylon-string
guitar, backing vocal KEN COOMER: drums JOHN
STIRRATT: bass, backing vocal JEFF TWEEDY: vocal,
acoustic guitar
Lyrics: Remember the Mountain bed, Billy Bragg [end]