Gentle On My Mind

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Gentle On My Mind:Dean Martin.
Single #2 in UK in 1969. Album - Gentle On My
Mind - hit #14 in 1968.
(Capo 1st fret.)
#1.
C Em C
It's knowing that your door is always open
Em Dm
and your path is free to walk.
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
G C Em C Em
rolled up and stashed behind your couch.
C Em C
And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten
Em
words and bonds..
C Em Dm
and the ink stains that have dried up on some line..
that keeps you in the back roads by the rivers
of my memory..
G C Em C Em
that keeps you ever gentle on my mind.
#2.
C Em C
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on
Em Dm
their columns now, that binds me.
Or something that somebody said because they thought
G C Em C Em
we fit together, walking.
C Em
It's just knowing that the world will not be
C Em C Em
cursing or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track
Dm
and find...
that you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory..
G C Em C Em
and for hours you're just gentle on my mind.
#3.
C# Fm C#
Well, I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling crackling
Fm D#m
caldron in some train yard.
My beard a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low
G# C# Fm C# Fm
across my face.
C# Fm C# Fm
Through cupped hands round a tin can..I pretend I hold you to my
D#m
breast and find...
that you're waving from the back roads, by the river of my memory,
G# C#
ever smiling ever gentle on my mind.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

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Gentle On My Mind:Dean Martin.
Single #2 in UK in 1969. Album - Gentle On My
Mind - hit #14 in 1968.
              (Capo 1st fret.)
#1.
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag 
that keeps you in the back roads by the rivers 
of my memory..
#2.
Or something that somebody said because they thought 
that you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory..
#3.
My beard a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low 
that you're waving from the back roads, by the river of my memory,
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

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