Gentle On My Mind chords by Billy Bragg

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)


Intro:
D MajorD

Verse 1:
   D MajorD
It's knowing that your door is always open
             E minorEm
and your path is free to walk,
   A augmentedA
That makes me tends to leave my sleeping bag rolled up
            D MajorD
and stashed behind your couch.

Verse 2:
   D MajorD
It's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bars
                       E minorEm
and the ink stains that have dried upon some lines,
   A augmentedA
that keeps you on the back roads by the rivers of my memory
                D MajorD
and keeps you ever gentle on my mind.

Verse 3:
     D MajorD
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy, planted on the columns,
     E minorEm
now that binds me;
  A augmentedA
or something that somebody said
                   D MajorD
because they thought we fit together walkin'.

Verse 4:
     D MajorD
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursed or forgiven
                     E minorEm
when I walk along some railway track and find
      A augmentedA
that you're waiting on the back roads by the rivers of my memory
                  D MajorD
for hours, you're just gentle on my mind.

Verse 5:
      D MajorD
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the junkyards
            E minorEm
and the highways come between us
     A augmentedA
and some other woman's crying to her mother 'cause she turned
     D MajorD
and I was gone.

Verse 6:
    D MajorD
Well, I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
                     E minorEm
and the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind.
  A augmentedA
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads
                  D MajorD
by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind.

Verse 7:
    D MajorD
Well, I dip my cup of soup back from a gurgling bubbling cauldron
    E minorEm
in some train yard;
  A augmentedA
my beard rough and the coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low
     D MajorD
'cross my face.

Verse 8:
    D MajorD
Through cupped hand, drivin' tin can,
                    E minorEm
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
      A augmentedA
that you're waiving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory,
                D MajorD
ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind.

Outro:
D MajorD      D MajorD

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