Gentle On My Mind

Instr Intro | C Em | Am C | Dm | Dm | | Dm C# | F G | C | C | | C C | Gm C | Gm C B C | Dm | | Dm | Dm C# | F G | C | C | C Em Am It's knowin' that your door is always open C Dm And your path is free to walk Dm C# F That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag G C Rolled up and stashed behind your couch C Em And it's knowin' I'm not shackled Am C By forgotten words and bonds Am C Dm And the ink stains that have dried upon some line Dm C# That keeps you walking by the rails Em Dm By the rivers of my memory F G C That keeps you ever gentle on my mind C Em It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy Am G Dm Planted on their columns now that defines me Dm C# F Or somethin' that somebody said because G C They thought we fit together walkin' C Em It's just knowin' that the world Am C Will not be cursin' or forgivin' Am C Dm When I walk along some railroad track and find Dm C# That you're movin' through the back roads Em Dm By the rivers of my memory F G C And for hours you're just gentle on my mind | C | C | C | Dm | | Dm | Dm | Dm | C | | C F | C | C | C | | Dm | Dm | Dm C# | F G | | Dm G | C | C | C Em Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines Am G Dm And the junkyards and the highways come between us Dm C# F And some other woman's cryin' to her mother G C 'Cause she turned and I was gone C Em I still might run in silence Am C Tears of joy might stain in my face Am C Dm And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind Dm B But not to where I cannot see F Dm Your moon walkin' on the back roads F G C Dm C By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind C Em Am G I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron Dm In some train yard Dm C#m My beard a rustlin' coal pile C G C And a dirty hat pulled low across my face C Em Through cupped hands 'round a tin can Am C Dm I pretend to hold you to my breast and find Dm B That you're waitin' from the back roads F Dm By the rivers of my memory F G C Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind