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Gentle On My Mind

  
                C       Cmaj7       C6       Cmaj7
Intro: 2/2  ‖       |           |        |            ‖      
                                                  (It's)

        C                  Cmaj7           C6
1. It's know-ing that your door is al-ways o-pen
            Cmaj7           Dm
   And your path is free to walk
                                            Dm7
   That makes me tend to leave my sleep-ing bag
                 G7                   C
   Rolled up and stashed be-hind your couch
   
            C                Cmaj7           C6                Cmaj7
2. And it's know-ing I'm not shackled by for-got-ten words and bonds
           C                                     Dm
   And the ink stains that have dried up on some line
                         Dm7               Dm6           Dm7
   That keeps you in the back roads by the ri-vers of my mem-'ry
        Dm             G7            C
   That keeps you ever gen-tle on my mind

            C                Cmaj7         C6
3. It's not cling-ing to the rocks and ivy plan-ted
            Cmaj7            Dm
   On their co-lumns now that binds me
 
   Or some-thing that some-bo-dy said
      Dm7                   G7             C
   Be-cause they thought we fit to-ge-ther walk-ing

             C                 Cmaj7             C6              Cmaj7
4. It's just know-ing that the world will not be curs-ing or for-giv-ing
          C                                    Dm
   When I walk a-long some rail-road track and find
                              Dm7              Dm6           Dm7
   That you're mov-ing on the back road by the ri-vers of my mem-'ry
           Dm                G7            C
   And for hours you're just gen-tle on my mind
   
              C                    Cmaj7
5. Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
           C6                 Cmaj7             Dm
   And the junk-yards and the high-ways come be-tween us
                                          Dm7
   And some other wo-man's cry-in' to her mo-ther
              G7               C 
   'Cause she turned and I was gone

     C                  Cmaj7            C6                 Cmaj7
6. I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
           C                                  Dm
   And the sum-mer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
                      Dm7             Dm6             Dm7
   But not to where I can-not see you walk-in' on the back-roads
          Dm               G7            C
   By the ri-vers flow-ing gen-tle on my mind

          C             Cmaj7              C6
7. Well I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgl-ing crackl-ing
   Cmaj7             Dm
   Cauld-ron in some train yard

   My beard a rust-ling coal pile
     Dm7               G7             C
   A dir-ty hat pulled low a-cross my face

           C                     Cmaj7
8. Through cupped hands 'round a tin  can
         C6              Cmaj7              Dm
   I pre-tend I hold you to  my  breast and find
                                Dm7               Dm6           Dm7
   That you're wav-ing from the back roads by the ri-vers of my mem-'ry
         Dm             G7            C
   E-ver smil-ing e-ver gen-tle on my mind  

   C6            C
   Gen-tle on my mind    
   C6            C
   Gen-tle on my mind 
   F       Bdim7     C                 C           
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