Gentle On My Mind chords by John Hartford

Chords with lyrics

In the verses, there's a pedal G.
Intro and 4 verses.


[INTRO]
C majorC | | | |


[VERSE 1]
   C majorC         Cmaj7Cmaj7      C6C6
It's knowing that your door is always open
     C majorC          DmDm
And your path is free to walk
   DmDm        DmMaj7Dmmaj7      Dm7Dm7
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
       G+G         C majorC
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
     C majorC        Cmaj7Cmaj7
And it's knowing I'm not shackled
   C6C6        C majorC
By forgotten words and bonds
    C majorC          C majorC        DmDm
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
   DmDm        DmMaj7Dmmaj7
That keeps you on the back roads
    Dm7Dm7     G+G
By the rivers of my memory
   DmDm       G+G      C majorC
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

[VERSE 2]
     C majorC          Cmaj7Cmaj7
It's not clinging to the rocks   and ivy
C6C6        C majorC        DmDm
Planted on their columns now that binds me
  DmDm         DmMaj7Dmmaj7
Or something that somebo - dy said
 Dm7Dm7          G+G      C majorC
Because they thought we fit together walking
     C majorC        Cmaj7Cmaj7       C6C6      C majorC
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving
    C majorC                 Dm7Dm7
when I walk along some railroad track and find
      DmDm        DmMaj7Dmmaj7
That you're moving on the back   roads
    Dm7Dm7     G+G
By the rivers of my memory
    DmDm        G+G      C majorC
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

[VERSE 3]
      C majorC          Cmaj7Cmaj7
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
    C6C6        C majorC        Dm7Dm7
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
     DmDm      DmMaj7Dmmaj7    Dm7Dm7
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
      G+G        C majorC
'Cause she turned and I was  gone
 C majorC         Cmaj7Cmaj7       C6C6         C majorC
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
    C majorC                 Dm7Dm7
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
    DmDm       DmMaj7Dmmaj7     Dm7Dm7      G+G
Oh, but not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads
    DmDm       G+G      C majorC
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind


[VERSE 4]
 C majorC       Cmaj7Cmaj7      C6C6
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin',
     C majorC        DmDm
Cracklin' cauldron in some train yard
  DmDm         DmMaj7Dmmaj7
My beard a rustling, a cold towel,
   Dm7Dm7       G+G       C majorC
and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
    C majorC            Cmaj7Cmaj7
Through cupped hands 'round the tin can
   C6C6        C majorC        Dm7Dm7
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
      DmDm        DmMaj7Dmmaj7
That you're waiting from the back roads
    Dm7Dm7     G7G7
By the rivers of my memories
   DmDm      G+G      C majorC  | Csus4Csus4 | C majorC | C7sus4C7sus4 | C majorC |