Chords with lyrics
Gentle on my Mind – Elvis Presley
Tuning: Standard
Elvis Presley
Gentle on my Mind (1969)
(John Hartford)
From: "From Elvis in Memphis"
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capo: 4th fret
play: C majorC
key: E MajorE
For the original chords transpose this tab +4 to the key of E.
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
C majorC x-3-2-0-1-0
Em/B x-2-x-0-0-0
Am7Am7 x-0-2-0-1-0
DmDm x-x-0-2-3-1
C#augC#aug x-4-3-2-2-x
Dm7/C x-3-x-2-1-1
G+G 3-x-0-0-0-3
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Intro:
| C majorC | % |
Verse 1:
C majorC Em/B Am7Am7
It's knowin' that your door is always open
C/GC/G DmDm
And your path is free to walk
DmDm C#augC#aug Dm7/C
That makes me tend to keep my sleeping bag rolled up
G+G C majorC
And stashed behind your couch
C majorC Em/B
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled
Am7Am7 C/GC/G
By forgotten words and bonds
C majorC DmDm
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
DmDm C#augC#aug
That keeps you in the back roads
Dm7/C 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 Em/B
It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy
Am7Am7 C/GC/G DmDm
Planted on their columns now that bind me
DmDm C#augC#aug Dm7/C
Or something that somebody said because
G+G C majorC
They thought we fit together walkin'
C majorC Em/B
It's just knowing that the world
Am7Am7 C/GC/G
Will not be cursing or forgiving
C majorC DmDm
When I walk along some railroad track and find
DmDm C#augC#aug
That you're movin' on the back roads
Dm7/C 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 Em/B
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
Am7Am7 C/GC/G DmDm
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
DmDm C#augC#aug Dm7/C
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
G+G C majorC
'Cause she turned and I was gone
C majorC Em/B
I still might run in silence
Am7Am7 C/GC/G
Tears of joy might stain my face
C majorC DmDm
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
DmDm C#augC#aug
But not to where I cannot see
Dm7/C G+G
You walkin' on the back roads
DmDm G+G C majorC
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind
Verse 4:
C majorC Em/B
I dip my cup of soup back
Am7Am7 C/GC/G DmDm
From a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron in some train yard
DmDm C#augC#aug
My beard a rustlin' coal pile
Dm7/C G+G C majorC
And a dirty hat pulled low across my face
C majorC Em/B
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can
Am7Am7 C/GC/G DmDm
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
DmDm C#augC#aug
That you're waitin' from the back roads
Dm7/C G+G
By the rivers of my memory
DmDm G+G C majorC
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind
Outro:
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(repeat and fade)