Gentle On My Mind chords by Lucinda Williams

Intro:

G  G  G  G


Verse:
      G
It's knowing that your door is always open
                          Am    Am
And your path is free to walk
      Am
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
               D                   G      G
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

          G
And it's knowing I'm not shackled

By forgotten words and bonds

And the ink stains
                           Am   Am
That have dried upon some line


Chorus:
      Am               E
That keeps you in the backroads
        Am           D
By the rivers of my memory
     Am             D            G    G
And keeps you ever gentle on my mind


Verse:
          G
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted
                           Am       Am
On their columns now that binds me
    Am
Or something that somebody said

Because they thought
    D            G       G
We fit together walking

           G
It's just knowing that the world

Will not be cursing or forgiving
                                           Am    Am
When I walk along some railroad track and find


Chorus:
             Am            E
That you're moving on the backroads
        Am           D
By the rivers of my memory
         Am                D            G    G    G    G
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind


Instrumental:
G   G    Am   Am   Am   Am
G   G   G   G   Am   Am
Am  Em  Am  D  Am  D  G  G  G  G


Verse:
   G
I dip my cup of soup back

From the gurgling crackling cauldron
         Am         Am
In some train yard
     Am
My beard a roughning coal pile and a dirty hat
        D             G    G
Pulled low across my face

         G
Through cupped hands around a tin can
                                       Am   Am
I pretend I hold you to my breast and find
             Am
That you're waving from the backroads
                     D
By the rivers of my memory
      Am           D            G    G
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind


Outro:
             Am
That you're waving from the backroads
        Am           D
By the rivers of my memory
      Am           D            G
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind

G     G     G     G     G  - FADE OUT -