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