Chords with lyrics
Single #2 in UK in 1969. Album - Gentle On My
Mind - hit #14 in 1968.
(Capo 1st fret.)
#1.
C majorC 
E minorEm C majorC
It's knowing that your door is always open
E minorEm 
DmDm
and your path is free to walk.
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
G+G C majorC E minorEm C majorC E minorEm
rolled up and stashed behind your couch.
C majorC E minorEm C majorC
And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten
E minorEm
words and bonds..
C majorC E minorEm DmDm
and the ink stains that have dried up on some line..
that keeps you in the back roads by the rivers
of my memory..
G+G C majorC E minorEm C majorC E minorEm
that keeps you ever gentle on my mind.
#2.
C majorC E minorEm C majorC
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on
E minorEm DmDm
their columns now, that binds me.
Or something that somebody said because they thought
G+G C majorC E minorEm C majorC E minorEm
we fit together, walking.
C majorC E minorEm
It's just knowing that the world will not be
C majorC E minorEm C majorC E minorEm
cursing or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track
DmDm
and find...
that you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory..
G+G C majorC E minorEm C majorC E minorEm
and for hours you're just gentle on my mind.
#3.
C#C# 
F minorFm C#C#
Well, I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling crackling
F minorFm 
D#mD#m
caldron in some train yard.
My beard a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low
G#G# C#C# F minorFm C#C# F minorFm
across my face.
C#C# F minorFm C#C# F minorFm
Through cupped hands round a tin can..I pretend I hold you to my
D#mD#m
breast and find...
that you're waving from the back roads, by the river of my memory,
G#G# C#C#
ever smiling ever gentle on my mind.
A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
