Gentle On My Mind

C C Cmaj7 C6 It's knowing that your door is always open Cmaj7 Dm And your path is free to walk Dmmaj7 Dm7 That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag G C Rolled up and stashed behind your couch Cmaj7 And it's knowing I'm not shackled C6 Cmaj7 By forgotten words and bonds C Cmaj7 Dm And the ink stains that are dried upon some line Dmmaj7 That keeps you in the backroads Dm7 G By the rivers of my memory Dm G C That keeps you ever gentle on my mind Cmaj7 It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy C6 Cmaj7 Dm Planted on their columns now that bind me Dm Dmmaj7 Or something that somebody said Dm7 G C Because they thought we fit together walking Cmaj7 C6 It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 Dm Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find Dmmaj7 That you're moving on the backroads Dm7 G By the rivers of my memory Dm G C G# And for hours you're just gentle on my mind C# C#maj7 Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines C#6 C#maj7 D#m And the junkyards and the highways come between us D#mmaj7 D#m7 And some other woman's cryin' to her mother G# C# 'Cause she turned and I was gone C#maj7 C#6 C#maj7 I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face C Cmaj7 D#m And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind D#mmaj7 D#m7 G# But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads D#m G# C# A By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind D Dmaj7 D6 I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' Dmaj7 Em Cracklin' cauldron in some train yard Emmaj7 My beard a roughenin' coal pile, and Em7 A D A dirty hat pulled low across my face Dmaj7 Through cupped hands 'round the tin can D6 Dmaj7 Em I pretend to hold you to my breast and find Emmaj7 That you're waiting from the backroads Em7 A By the rivers of my memories Em A D Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind D