Gentle On My Mind Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

C C7M C6 C7M

 It's Cknowing that your C7Mdoor is always

C6open and your C7Mpath is free to Dmwalk Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7

 that Dmmakes me tend to Dmmajleave my sleeping

Dm7bag rolled up and G7stashed behind your Ccouch C7M C9 C

 And it's Cknowing I'm not C7Mshackled by forgC6otten words and

C7Mbonds and the Cink stains that have C7Mdried upon some DmlineDmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7

 That kDmeeps you in the Dmmaj7backroads by the

Dm7rivers of my G7mem'ry, thatDm keeps you ever

G7gentle on my Cmind C7M C9 C

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy

Planted on their columns now that bind me

Or something that somebody said

Because they think we fit together walkin'.

It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or

Forgiving, when I walk along some railroad track and find

That you're moving on the backroads by the

Rivers of my mem'ry, and for hours you're just

Gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the

Junkyards and the highways come between us,

And some other woman crying to her

Mother, 'cause she turned and I was gone.

I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my

Face, and the summer sun might burn be 'till I'm blind,

But not to where I cannot see you

Walkin' on the backroads, by the rivers flowing

Gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from the

Gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some trainyard;

My beard a roughning coal pile and a

Dirty had pulled low across my face.

Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I

Pretend I hold you to my breast and find

That you're waving from the backroads by the

Rivers of my memory, ever smilin' ever

Gentle on my mind.

C6: x322x0 (I use the finger on the G string to mute the B string.

C9: x32030 It makes for a faster change between the Cmaj7 and C6)