Gentle On My Mind

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(repeat intro 2x)

G
It's knowin' that your door is 
always open
                         Am
And your path is free to walk
     D
That makes me tend to leave my 
sleepin' bag
                                  
[Riff 1]
Rolled up and stashed behind your 
couch

G
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled

By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried 
          Am
upon some line
     D
That keeps you in the back roads
D
By the rivers of my memory
                                 
[Riff 1]
That keeps you ever gentle on my 
mind

G
It's not clingin' to the rocks and 
ivy
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Planted on their columns now that 
     Am
bind me
        D
Or some-thing that somebody said 
be-cause
D                             [Riff
They thought we fit together 
 1]
walkin'

G
It's just knowing that the world

Will not be cursing or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad 
          Am
track and find
            D
That you're movin' on the back roads

By the rivers of my memory
                                    
   [Riff 1 twice]
And for hours you're just gentle on 
my mind

G
Though the wheat fields and the 
clothes lines
And the junkyards and the highways 
       Am
come between us
         D
And some other woman's cryin' to her
 mother
                            [Riff 1]
'cause she turned and I was gone

G
I still might run in silence

Tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me 
         Am
till I'm blind
    D
But not to where I cannot see

You walkin' on the back roads
                                   
[Riff 1 twice]
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my 
mind

G
I dip my cup of soup back from a 
gurglin' cracklin' cauldron
              Am
In some train yard
   D
My beard a rustlin' coal pile
                                    
 [Riff 1]
And a dirty hat pulled low across my
 face

G
Through cupped hands 'round a tin 
can
I pretend to hold you to my breast 
    Am
and find
            D
That you're waitin' from the back 
roads

By the rivers of my memory
                                
[Riff 1 twice] end on slow strum of 
G
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind