{"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":2683041,"song":"Gentle On My Mind","artist":"Johnny Cash","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/2683041-gentle-on-my-mind-chords-by-johnny-cash/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2683041?type=chord","rating":4.99832,"votes":55,"content":"[Intro]\r\n\r\n[tab]e|--------------|\r\nB|--------------|\r\nG|--------------|\r\nD|--0--2--4--5--|\r\nA|--------------|\r\nE|--------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\nThen [Riff 1] twice to starting G\r\n\r\n[tab]       ˅  ˄ ˅     ˅  ˄ ˅     ˅  ˄ ˅     ˅  ˄ ˅\r\ne|-----3--3-3-----3--3-3-----3--3-3-----3--3-3--|\r\nB|-----0--0-0-----0--0-0-----0--0-0-----0--0-0--|\r\nG|-----0--0-0-----0--0-0-----0--0-0-----0--0-0--|\r\nD|--5--5--5-5--4--4--4-4--2--2--2-2--0--0--0-0--|\r\nA|----------------------------------------------|\r\nE|----------------------------------------------|\r\n(repeat intro 2x)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's knowin' that your door is always open[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd your path is free to walk[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag[/tab]\r\n                                  [Riff 1]\r\nRolled up and stashed behind your couch\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd it's knowin' I'm not shackled[/tab]\r\n\r\nBy forgotten words and bonds\r\n[tab]                                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd the ink stains that have dried upon some line[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat keeps you in the back roads[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nBy the rivers of my memory[/tab]\r\n                                 [Riff 1]\r\nThat keeps you ever gentle on my mind\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nPlanted on their columns now that bind me[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOr some-thing that somebody said be-cause[/tab]\r\nD                             [Riff 1]\r\nThey thought we fit together walkin'\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's just knowing that the world[/tab]\r\n\r\nWill not be cursing or forgiving\r\n[tab]                                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhen I walk along some railroad track and find[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat you're movin' on the back roads[/tab]\r\n\r\nBy the rivers of my memory\r\n                                       [Riff 1 twice]\r\nAnd for hours you're just gentle on my mind\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThough the wheat fields and the clothes lines[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd the junkyards and the highways come between us[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd some other woman's cryin' to her mother[/tab]\r\n                            [Riff 1]\r\n'cause she turned and I was gone\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nI still might run in silence[/tab]\r\n\r\nTears of joy might stain my face\r\n[tab]                                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut not to where I cannot see[/tab]\r\n\r\nYou walkin' on the back roads\r\n                                   [Riff 1 twice]\r\nBy the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nI dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIn some train yard[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMy beard a rustlin' coal pile[/tab]\r\n                                     [Riff 1]\r\nAnd a dirty hat pulled low across my face\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThrough cupped hands 'round a tin can[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI pretend to hold you to my breast and find[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat you're waitin' from the back roads[/tab]\r\n\r\nBy the rivers of my memory\r\n                                [Riff 1 twice] end on slow strum of G\r\nEver smilin', ever gentle on my mind\r\n\r\n- - -\r\n\r\nBased on the \"Unearthed\" album version with Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell\r\nSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2adBKwqiheE8TJhfpHE9x6?si=L-jnZldLSq2ZEnPmdO3s0g \r\n\r\nSong originally by John Hartford","plain_text":"[Intro]\n\n\n\nThen [Riff 1] twice to starting G\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                                  [Riff 1]\nRolled up and stashed behind your couch\n\n\n\nBy forgotten words and bonds\n\n\n\n                                 [Riff 1]\nThat keeps you ever gentle on my mind\n\n\n\n\nD                             [Riff 1]\nThey thought we fit together walkin'\n\n\n\nWill not be cursing or forgiving\n\n\n\nBy the rivers of my memory\n                                       [Riff 1 twice]\nAnd for hours you're just gentle on my mind\n\n\n\n\n                            [Riff 1]\n'cause she turned and I was gone\n\n\n\nTears of joy might stain my face\n\n\n\nYou walkin' on the back roads\n                                   [Riff 1 twice]\nBy the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind\n\n\n\n\n                                     [Riff 1]\nAnd a dirty hat pulled low across my face\n\n\n\n\n\nBy the rivers of my memory\n                                [Riff 1 twice] end on slow strum of G\nEver smilin', ever gentle on my mind\n\n- - -\n\nBased on the \"Unearthed\" album version with Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell\nSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2adBKwqiheE8TJhfpHE9x6?si=L-jnZldLSq2ZEnPmdO3s0g \n\nSong originally by John Hartford","chords":["B","G","D","A","E","Am"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}