Gentle On My Mind chords by The Band Perry

CAPO 6

ORDER: I V1 V2 V3 V4 O

[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        Ammaj7      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        Ammaj7
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         Ammaj7
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        Ammaj7
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      Ammaj7    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       Ammaj7     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        Ammaj7       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        Ammaj7
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 Emmaj7/G G
You are gentle on my mind
Em/G Emmaj7/G G   G
Ooh       yeah
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