Glen Campbell - Gentle on My Mind guitar chord

Gentle On My Mind

By Glen Campbell

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

D Dmaj7 D6

It's knowing that your door is always open

Dmaj7 Em Em7 Em6 Em7

and your path is free to walk

Em Em+7 Em7

that makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag

A7 D Dmaj7 D6 Dmaj7

rolled up and stashed behind your couch.

And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds

and the ink stains that have dried if on some line,

that keeps you in the backroads by the rivers of my mem'ry

that keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy

planted on the columns now that binds me,

or something that somebody said

because they thought we fit together walking.

It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing

or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track

and find that you are moving on the backroads

by the rivers of my mem'ry

and for hours you're just gentle on my mind.

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and junkyards and the

highways come between us and some other woman crying to her mother

cause she turned and I was gone. I still run in silence, tears of joy

might stain my face and summer sun might burn me til I'm blind

but not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads by the

rivers flowing gentle on my mid.

I dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin' craklin caldron in some

train yard. My beard a rough'ning coal pile and a dirty hat pulled

low across my face. Through cupped hand round a tin can I pretend to

hold you to my breast and find that you're waving from the backroads

by the rivers of my memory every smilin every gentle on my mind.