Gentle On My Mind - Ver 2

C# C# C#M7/C A#m It's knowing that your door is always open C#/G# D#m And your path is free to walk D#m D#mmaj7 D#m7 That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag G# C# Rolled up and stashed behind your couch C# C#M7/C And it's knowing I'm not shackled A#m C#/G# By forgotten words and bonds C# C# D#m And the ink stains that are dried upon some line D#m D#mmaj7 That keeps you on the back roads D#m7 G# By the rivers of my memory D#m G# C# That keeps you ever gentle on my mind C# C#M7/C It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy A#m C#/G# D#m Planted on their columns now that bind me D#m D#mmaj7 Or something that somebody said D#m7 G# C# Because they thought we fit together walking C# C#M7/C A#m It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing C#/G# C# D#m Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find D#m D#mmaj7 That you're moving on the back roads D#m7 G# By the rivers of my memory D#m G# C# And for hours you're just gentle on my mind C# C#M7/C Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines A#m C#/G# D#m And the junkyards and the highways come between us D#m D#mmaj7 D#m7 And some other woman's cryin' to her mother G# C# 'Cause she turned and I was gone C# C#M7/C A#m C#/G# I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face C# D#m And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind D#m D#mmaj7 D#m7 G# Oh but not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads D#m G# C# By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind C# C#M7/C A#m I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' C#/G# D#m Cracklin' cauldron in some train yard D#m D#mmaj7 D#m7 My beard* a rustlin' cold towel G# C# A dirty hat pulled low across my face (across my face) C# C#M7/C Through cupped hands 'round the tin can A#m C#/G# D#m I pretend to hold you to my breast and find D#m D#mmaj7 That you're waiting from the back roads D#m7 G# By the rivers of my memories D#m G# C# Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind Gentle on my mind A#m/C# A#mmaj7/C# C# You are gentle on my mind A#m/C# A#mmaj7/C# C# C# Ooh yeah