Gentle On My Mind

INTRO verse 1 It's knowing that your door is always open And your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag Rolled up and stashed behind your couch GM7/F# And it's knowing I'm not shackled By forgotten words and bonds And the ink stains that are dried upon some line AmM7 That keeps you on the back roads By the rivers of my memory That keeps you ever gentle on my mind verse 2 GM7/F# It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy Planted on their columns now that bind me AmM7 Or something that somebody said Because they thought we fit together walking It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find AmM7 That you're moving on the back roads By the rivers of my memory And for hours you're just gentle on my mind verse 3 GM7/F# Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines And the junkyards and the highways come between us And some other woman's cryin' 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 me 'til I'm blind Oh but not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind verse 4 I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' Cracklin' cauldron in some train yard My beard* a rustling, a cold towel, A dirty hat pulled low across my face (across my face) GM7/F# Through cupped hands 'round the tin can I pretend to hold you to my breast and find AmM7 That you're waiting from the back roads By the rivers of my memories Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind OUTRO Gentle on my mind You are gentle on my mind Ooh yeah -- *Awkward singer gender change problems.