Gentle On My Mind Chords by Waylon Jennings

[Start]

[Verse]
D Dmaj7 D Dmaj7 D Dmaj7 D Dmaj7
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It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
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■   That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch ■    
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■ And it's knowing I'm not shacked by forgotten words and bons
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And the ink stains that have dried upon some line ■   ■ 
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That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
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Keeps you ever gentle on my mind  ■
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It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on their columns now that binds me
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Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walkin'
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It's just knowing that the world will not be cursin' or forgivin'
                                          Em  
When I walk along some railroad track and find
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That you're movin' on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
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And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
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Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines
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And the junk yards and the highways come between us
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And some other woman 's cryin' to her mother cause she turned and I was gone
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I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
                                          Em   
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
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But not to where I cannot see you walking on the back roads
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By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind


[Chorus]
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I dipped my cup of soap back from a gurglin' cracklin' caltron in some train yard
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My beard a roughen coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
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Through cupped hands round a tin can I pretend to hold you to my breast and find ■ 
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That you're waving from the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
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Ever you're just gentle on my mind


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