Gentle On My Mind chords by Dean Martin

Single #2 in UK in 1969. Album - Gentle On My
Mind - hit #14 in 1968.

       (Capo 1st fret.)

#1.
   C         Em       C
It's knowing that your door is always open
     Em       Dm
and your path is free to walk.

That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
       G          C  Em C Em
rolled up and stashed behind your couch.
     C        Em     C
And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten
     Em
words and bonds..
    C          Em        Dm
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      C  Em C Em
that keeps you ever gentle on my mind.

#2.
     C        Em      C
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on
   Em        Dm
their columns now, that binds me.

Or something that somebody said because they thought
  G       C    Em C Em
we fit together, walking.
     C        Em
It's just knowing that the world will not be
C     Em        C        Em
cursing or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track
  Dm
and find...

that you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory..
             G      C  Em C Em
and for hours you're just gentle on my mind.

#3.
    C#      Fm         C#
Well, I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling crackling
Fm       D#m
caldron in some train yard.

My beard a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low
G#    C#  Fm C# Fm
across my face.
    C#          Fm     C#         Fm
Through cupped hands round a tin can..I pretend I hold you to my
      D#m
breast and find...

that you're waving from the back roads, by the river of my memory,
   G#            C#
ever smiling ever gentle on my mind.


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.