Gentle On My Mind

Intro: E 


[Verso 1]
 
     E                 Emaj7          E6 
It's knowing that your door is always open 
         E               F#m  F#mmaj7 F#m7  F#m6 
And your path is free to walk 
     F#m               F#mmaj7            F#m7 
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag 
                                 E Emaj7 E6 E 
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch 
         E               Emaj7 
And it's knowing I'm not shackled 
      E6               E             E 
By forgotten words and bonds and the ink stains 
                         F#m F#mmaj7 F#m7  
That are dried upon some line 
     F#m               F#mmaj7 
That keeps you in the backroads 
       F#m7           
By the rivers of my memory 
     F#m7                        E  Emaj7 E6 E 
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind 
 


[Verso 2]
 
E                        Emaj7 
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy 
E6               E                F#m     F#m6 F#m7 
Planted on their columns now that binds me 
   F#m                 F#mmaj7 
Or something that somebody said 
  F#m7                               E    Emaj7 E6 E 
Because they thought we fit together walking 
          E                Emaj7             E6 
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing 
      E             E 
Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track 
    F#m    F#mmaj7 F#m7 F#m6 
And find 
            F#m            F#mmaj7 
That you're moving on the backroads 
       F#m7           
By the rivers of my memory 
        F#m7                             E Emaj7 E6 C 
And for hours, youre just gentle on my mind 
 


[Verso 3]
 
           F                   Fmaj7 
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the 
F6               F              Gm Gmmaj7 Gm7 Gm6 
Junkyards and the highways come between us 
         Gm           Gmmaj7       Gm7 
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother 
       C                   F   Fmaj7 F6 F 
'Cause she turned and I was gone 
  F                 Fmaj7 
I still might run in silence 
         F6                F 
Tears of joy might stain my face 
    Fmaj7                 F6 
And the summer sun might burn me 
         Gm   Gmmaj7  Gm7   C 
'Til I'm blind 
    Gm            Gmmaj7 
But not to where I cannot see you 
Gm7           C                 Gm 
Walkin' on the backroads by the river 
        C           F  Fmaj7 F6    C# 
Flowing gentle on my mind 
 

Outro:
 
  F#             F#maj7            F#6 
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin', cracklin' 
F#               G#m       G#mmaj7   G#m6    G#m7 
Cauldron in some train yard 
   G#m                 G#mmaj7          G#m7 
My beard a roughenin' coal pile and a dirty hat 
       C#            F#    F#maj7  F#6  F# 
Pulled low across my face 
        F#                    F#maj7        F#6 
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I pretend 
            F#               G#m   E/G#  G#m6 G#m7 
To hold you to my breast and find 
            G#m               G#mmaj7 
That you're waving from the backroads 
       G#m7          C# 
By the rivers of my memory ever 
G#m           C#            F# 
Smilin' ever gentle on my mind