Gentle On My Mind
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste:
2nd traste
[Intro]
G Gmaj7 Em D G Gmaj7 Em D
[Verse]
G Gmaj7 Em
It's knowing that your door is always open
D Am Am Am
And your path is free to walk
C Cmaj7 Am
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
D G Gmaj7 Em D
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
G Gmaj7
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled
Em D
By forgotten words and bonds
G Gmaj7 Am Am Am
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
C Cmaj7
That keeps you in the back roads
Am D
By the rivers of my memory
Am D G Gmaj7 Em D
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
[Verse]
G Gmaj7
It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy
Em D Am Am Am
Planted on their columns now that binds me
C Cmaj7
Or somethin' that somebody said
Am D G Gmaj7 Em D
Because they thought we fit together walkin'
G Gmaj7 Em D
It's just knowin' that the world will not be cursin' or forgivin'
G Am Am Am
when I walk along some railroad track and find
C Cmaj7
That you're wavin' from the back roads
Am D
By the rivers of my memory
Am D G Gmaj7 Em D
For hours you're just gentle on my mind
[Verse]
G Gmaj7
Although the wheat fields and the clothes lines
Em D Am Am Am
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
C Cmaj7 Am
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
D G Gmaj7 Em D
'Cause she turned and I was gone
G Gmaj7 Em D
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
G Gmaj7 Am Am Am
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
C Cmaj7 Am D
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads
Am D G Gmaj7 Em D
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind
[Verse]
G Gmaj7 Em
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin',
D Am Am Am
Cracklin' cauldron in some train yard
C Cmaj7
My beard a roughnin'coal pile
Am D G Gmaj7 Em
and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
G Gmaj7
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can
Em D Am Am Am
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
C Cmaj7
That you're wavin' from the back roads
Am D
By the rivers of my memories
Am D G Gmaj7 Em D
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind
[Outro]
Gmaj7 Em D Gmaj7 Em D G
How to play Gentle On My Mind
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The first identified chord is E. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.