Gentle On My Mind chords by Rhys Rutherford

• Capo on 1st

Key: Eb

Intro:

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Verse 1:
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It's knowing that your door is always open
                         Em
And your path is free to walk
Em
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
              A                   D
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
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And it's knowing I'm not shackled
D
By forgotten words and bonds
                                       Em
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
Em
That keeps you in the backroads
                    A
By the rivers of my memory
     Em             A         D
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind


Verse 2:
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It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
                                  Em
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Em
Or something that somebody said
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Because they thought we fit together walking
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It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing
                                                       Em
Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find
Em
That you're moving on the backroads
                    A
By the rivers of my memory
        Em                A         D
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind


Verse 3:
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Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
                                          Em
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
Em
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
           A                 D
'Cause she turned, and I was gone
D
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
                                      Em
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
Em
But not to where I cannot see
                       A
You walkin' on the backroads
       Em             A         D
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind


Verse 4:
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I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin'
                          Em
Cracklin' caldron in some train yard
Em
My beard a roughening coal pile,
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And a dirty hat pulled low across my face
D
Through cupped hands 'round the tin can
                                   Em
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
Em
That you're waiting from the backroads
                    A
By the rivers of my memories
     Em           A         D
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind


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