{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1871833,"song":"Gentle On My Mind","artist":"Elvis Presley","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1871833-gentle-on-my-mind-chords-by-elvis-presley/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1871833?type=chord","rating":4.74811,"votes":38,"content":"Gentle On My Mind:Elvis Presley.\r\nAlbum - From Elvis In Memphis - #13 on\r\nBB Hot 200 on RCA Records in 1969.\r\n\r\n\r\nINTRO: [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n#1.\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt's knowin' that your door is always open[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Gbm[/ch]\r\nand your path is free to walk.[/tab]\r\n\r\nThat makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag\r\n[tab]              [ch]B[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nrolled up and stashed behind your couch.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]B[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd it's knowin' I'm not shackled by forgotten [/tab]\r\n\r\nwords and bonds and the ink stains that have \r\n[tab]                [ch]Gbm[/ch]\r\ndried upon some line.[/tab]\r\n\r\nThat keeps you in the back roads by the rivers \r\n[tab]      [ch]B[/ch]            [ch]Gbm[/ch]            [ch]B[/ch]\r\nof my memory..that keeps you ever gentle on my [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nmind.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n#2.\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy planted on [/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Gbm[/ch]\r\ntheir columns now that bind me.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOr something that somebody said because they thought [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nwe fit together, walkin'.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]B[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt's just knowing that the world will not be cursing [/tab]\r\n\r\nor forgiving when I walk along some railroad track \r\n[tab]    [ch]Gbm[/ch]\r\nand find..that you're movin' on the back roads by the [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]            [ch]B[/ch]              [ch]Gbm[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]\r\nrivers of my memory and for hours you're just gentle [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\non my mind.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n#3.\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                               \r\nThough the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]Gbm[/ch]\r\njunkyards and the highways come between us.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gbm[/ch]\r\nAnd some other woman's cryin' to her mother cause she [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nturned and I was gone.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]B[/ch]\r\nI still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain [/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]B[/ch]                [ch]Gbm[/ch]\r\nmy face and the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                 [ch]B[/ch]\r\nBut not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back [/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Gbm[/ch]            [ch]B[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nroads by the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n#4.\r\n[tab]                     [ch]B[/ch]           [ch]Dbm[/ch]\r\nI dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' [/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Gbm[/ch]\r\ncauldron in some train yard.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]\r\nMy beard a rustlin' coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nacross my face.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nThrough cupped hands 'round a tin can, I pretend to hold [/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Gbm[/ch]\r\nyou to my breast and find..that you're waitin' from the [/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]Gbm[/ch]   [ch]B[/ch]            [ch]Gbm[/ch]\r\nback roads by the rivers of my memory, ever smilin', ever [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\ngentle on my mind.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.","plain_text":"Gentle On My Mind:Elvis Presley.\nAlbum - From Elvis In Memphis - #13 on\nBB Hot 200 on RCA Records in 1969.\n\n\nINTRO: E\n\n#1.\n\n\n\nThat makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag\n\n\n\nwords and bonds and the ink stains that have \n\n\nThat keeps you in the back roads by the rivers \n\n\n\n\n#2.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nor forgiving when I walk along some railroad track \n\n\n\n\n\n#3.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n#4.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.","chords":["E","Gbm","B","A","Dbm"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}