Gentle On My Mind

Capo 6 INTRO G verse 1 G GM7/F# Em It's knowing that your door is always open G/D Am And your path is free to walk Am AmM7 Am7 That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag D G Rolled up and stashed behind your couch G GM7/F# And it's knowing I'm not shackled Em G/D By forgotten words and bonds G G Am And the ink stains that are dried upon some line Am AmM7 That keeps you on the back roads Am7 D By the rivers of my memory Am D G That keeps you ever gentle on my mind verse 2 G GM7/F# It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy Em G/D Am Planted on their columns now that bind me Am AmM7 Or something that somebody said Am7 D G Because they thought we fit together walking G GM7/F# Em It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing G/D G Am Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find Am AmM7 That you're moving on the back roads Am7 D By the rivers of my memory Am D G And for hours you're just gentle on my mind verse 3 G GM7/F# Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines Em G/D Am And the junkyards and the highways come between us Am AmM7 Am7 And some other woman's cryin' to her mother D G 'Cause she turned and I was gone G GM7/F# Em G/D I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face G Am And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind Am AmM7 Am7 D Oh but not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads Am D G By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind verse 4 G GM7/F# Em I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' G/D Am Cracklin' cauldron in some train yard Am AmM7 Am7 My beard* a rustling, a cold towel, D G A dirty hat pulled low across my face (across my face) G GM7/F# Through cupped hands 'round the tin can Em G/D Am I pretend to hold you to my breast and find Am AmM7 That you're waiting from the back roads Am7 D By the rivers of my memories Am D G Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind OUTRO Gentle on my mind Em/G EmM7/G G You are gentle on my mind Em/G EmM7/G G G Ooh yeah -- *Awkward singer gender change problems.