Gentle On My Mind chords by Glen Campbell

Chords with lyrics

The following is Gentle on My Mind, performed by Glen Campbell:

You really need a banjo to make this happen, but the progression seems to work well.

The "F" chord does not use the BB note on the D MajorD string

The E minorEm+C majorC uses the C majorC note on the BB string.

Sorry I did not use the template...I'm not very skilled.

My thanks to Rod for working over the phone to figure this out.

Frank


C majorC           E minorEm+C majorC      A minorAm
It's knowing that your door is always open

             DmDm FaugFaug FF G+G
and your path is free to walk

   DmDm        FaugFaug
That makes me tend to leave my

     FF          G+G         C majorC  E minorEm+C majorC A minorAm  G+G
sleepin' bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch

      C majorC        E minorEm+C majorC
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled by

   A minorAm
forgotten words and bonds

     C majorC          E minorEm+C majorC      DmDm FaugFaug FF G+G
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line

   DmDm        FaugFaug       FF      G+G
That keeps you in the backroads by the rivers of my mem'ry

    DmDm      G+G      C majorC E minorEm+C majorC A minorAm  G+G
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

     C majorC        E minorEm+C majorC       A minorAm
It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy planted

              DmDm     FaugFaug FF G+G
on their columns now that bind me

   DmDm      FaugFaug      FF
Or somethin' that somebody said because they thought

  G+G       C majorC   E minorEm+C majorC  A minorAm G+G
we fit together walkin'

       C majorC       E minorEm+C majorC       A minorAm
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving

    C majorC        E minorEm+C majorC       DmDm  FaugFaug FF G+G
When I walk along some railroad track and find

       DmDm       FaugFaug       FF     G+G
That you're movin' on the backroads by the rivers of my mem'ry

     DmDm         G+G      C majorC   E minorEm+C majorC  A minorAm  G+G
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

      C majorC           E minorEm+C majorC
Though the wheat fields and the clotheslines

      A minorAm               DmDm   FaugFaug FF G+G
And the junkyards and the highways come between us

      DmDm      FaugFaug      FF
And some other woman's crying to her mother

      G+G        C majorC E minorEm+C majorC A minorAm G+G
cause she turned and I was gone

  C majorC         E minorEm+C majorC       A minorAm
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face

     C majorC        E minorEm+C majorC       DmDm  FaugFaug FF G+G
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind

  DmDm       FaugFaug      FF        G+G
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads

     DmDm       G+G     C majorC  E minorEm+C majorC A minorAm G+G
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

  C majorC        E minorEm+C majorC
I dip my cup of of soup back from

   A minorAm                 DmDm    FaugFaug FF G+G
a gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some train yard

  DmDm        FaugFaug       FF
My beard a roughnin' coal pile and a dirty hat

    G+G       C majorC  E minorEm+C majorC A minorAm G+G
pulled low across my face

     C majorC         E minorEm+C majorC
Through cupped hands round a tin can

  A minorAm                 DmDm FaugFaug FF G+G
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

       DmDm       FaugFaug       FF      G+G
That you're wavin' from the backroads by the rivers of my mem'ry

    DmDm       G+G       C majorC   E minorEm+C majorC  A minorAm  G+G
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind

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