Gentle On My Mind 
                                                                   
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It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk 2 3 4 Am 2 3 4 
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That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch Gmaj7 G6 G 
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And it's knowing I'm not shackled by for-gotten words and bonds 
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And the ink stains that have dried upon some line 2 3 4 Am 2 3 4 
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That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my memory 
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That keeps you ever gentle on my mind Gmaj7 G6 G 
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It's not clinging to the rocks and Ivy planted on their columns now that binds me 3 4 Am 2 3 4 
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Or somethin' that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking Gmaj7 G6 G 
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It's just knowin' that the world will not be cursing or forgiving 
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When I walk along some railroad track and find 2 3 4 Am 2 3 
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That you're movin' on the back roads by the rivers of my memory 
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And for hours you're just gentle on my mind Gmaj7 G6 G 
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Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the junkyards and the highways come be-tween us 3 4 Am 2 3 
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And some other woman cryin' to her mother cause she turned and I was gone Gmaj7 G6 G 
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I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face 
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And a summer sun might burn me till I'm blind 2 3 4 Am 2 3 4 
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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 Gmaj7 G6 G 
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I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron in some train yard 2 3 4 Am 2 3 4 
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My beard a roughen coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face Gmaj7 G6 G 
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Through cupped hands round a tin can I pre-tend I hold you to my breast and find 2 3 4 Am 2 3 
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That you're waving from the back roads by the rivers of my memory 
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Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind 2 3 4 Gmaj7 2 3 4 G6 2 3 4 G 2 3 4 
                                                       
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