Intro: C Cmaj7 C6 Cmaj7
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1. It’s knowing that your door is always
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open and your path is free to walk
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that makes me tend to leave my sleeping
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bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
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And it’s knowing I’m not shackled by forgotten words and
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bonds and the ink stains that have dried upon some line
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That keeps you in the backroads by the
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rivers of my mem’ry, that keeps you ever
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gentle on my mind
C Cmaj7
2. It’s not clinging to the rocks and ivy
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Planted on their columns now that bind me
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Or something that somebody said
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Because they think we fit together walkin’.
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It’s just knowing that the world will not be cursing or
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Forgiving, when I walk along some railroad track and find
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That you’re moving on the backroads by the
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Rivers of my mem’ry, and for hours you’re just
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Gentle on my mind
C Cmaj7
3. Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the
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Junkyards and the highways come between us,
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And some other woman crying to her
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Mother, ’cause she turned and I was gone.
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I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my
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Face, and the summer sun might burn be ’till I’m blind
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But not to where I cannot see you
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Walkin’ on the backroads, by the rivers flowing
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Gentle on my mind
C Cmaj7
4. I dip my cup of soup back from the
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Gurglin’, cracklin’ cauldron in some trainyard;
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My beard a roughning coal pile and a
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Dirty had pulled low across my face.
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Through cupped hands ’round a tin can I
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Pretend I hold you to my breast and find
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That you’re waving from the backroads by the
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Rivers of my memory, ever smilin’ ever
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Gentle on my mind.
C Cmaj7
1. It’s knowing that your door is always
C6 Cmaj7 Dm Dmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7
open and your path is free to walk
Dm Dmaj7
that makes me tend to leave my sleeping
Dm7 G7 C Cmaj7 C9 C
bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
C Cmaj7 C6
And it’s knowing I’m not shackled by forgotten words and
Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 Dm Dmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7
bonds and the ink stains that have dried upon some line
Dm Dmaj7
That keeps you in the backroads by the
Dm7 G7 Dm
rivers of my mem’ry, that keeps you ever
G7 C Cmaj7 C9 C
gentle on my mind
C Cmaj7
2. It’s not clinging to the rocks and ivy
C6 Cmaj7 Dm Dmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Dm Dmaj7
Or something that somebody said
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Because they think we fit together walkin’.
C Cmaj7 C6
It’s just knowing that the world will not be cursing or
Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 Dm Dmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7
Forgiving, when I walk along some railroad track and find
Dm Dmaj7
That you’re moving on the backroads by the
Dm7 G7 Dm
Rivers of my mem’ry, and for hours you’re just
G7 C Cmaj7 C9 C
Gentle on my mind
C Cmaj7
3. Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the
C6 Cmaj7 Dm Dmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7
Junkyards and the highways come between us,
Dm Dmaj7
And some other woman crying to her
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Mother, ’cause she turned and I was gone.
C Cmaj7 C6
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my
Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 Dm Dmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7
Face, and the summer sun might burn be ’till I’m blind
Dm Dmaj7
But not to where I cannot see you
Dm7 G7 Dm
Walkin’ on the backroads, by the rivers flowing
G7 C Cmaj7 C9 C
Gentle on my mind
C Cmaj7
4. I dip my cup of soup back from the
C6 Cmaj7 Dm Dmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7
Gurglin’, cracklin’ cauldron in some trainyard;
Dm Dmaj7
My beard a roughning coal pile and a
Dm7 G7 C Cmaj7 C9 C
Dirty had pulled low across my face.
C Cmaj7 C6
Through cupped hands ’round a tin can I
Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 Dm Dmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7
Pretend I hold you to my breast and find
Dm Dmaj7
That you’re waving from the backroads by the
Dm7 G7 Dm
Rivers of my memory, ever smilin’ ever
G7 C Cmaj7 C9 C
Gentle on my mind.
