Gentle On My Mind (Bar) - John Hartford Chord Chart Page 3
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3GENTLE ON MY MIND
-John Hartford
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INTRO:
C
CMA7
C6
CMA7
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C
CMA7
C6
CMA7
Dm Dm(add9) Dm
It's knowin' that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
Dm
A+
Dm7
G7
C
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
C
CMA7
C6
CMA7
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled by for-gotten words and bonds
C
CMA7
Dm Dm(add9) Dm
And the ink stains that are dried up on some line
Dm
A+
Dm7
G7
Dm7
G7
C
That keeps you in the backroads by the rivers of my memory, that keeps you ever gentle on my mind
C
CMA7
C6
CMA7
Dm
Dm(add9) Dm
It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy, planted on their columns now that bind me
Dm
A+
Dm7
G7
C
Or somethin' that some-body said, be-cause they thought we fit together walkin'.
C
CMA7
C6
CMA7
It's just knowin' that the world will not be cursing or for-giving,
C
CMA7
Dm Dm(add9) Dm
When I walk along some railroad track and find
Dm
A+
Dm7
G7
That you're movin' on the backroads by the rivers of my memory,
Dm7
G7
C
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
C
CMA7
C6
CMA7
Dm
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the junkyards and the highways come be-tween us,
Dm
A+
Dm7
G7
C
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother, 'cause she turned and I was gone.
C
CMA7
C6
CMA7
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face,
C
CMA7
Dm Dm(add9) Dm
And the summer sun might burn me 'till I'm blind,
Dm
A+
Dm7
G7
Dm7
G7
C
But not to where I cannot see you, walkin' on the backroads, by the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind
C
CMA7
C6
CMA7
Dm Dm(add9) Dm
I dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some trainyard;
Dm
A+
Dm7
G7
C
My beard, a roughenin' coal pile, and a dirty hat pulled low across my face.
C
CMA7
C6
CMA7
Dm Dm(add9) Dm
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I pre-tend I hold you to my breast and find
Dm
A+
Dm7
G7
That you're waving from the backroads by the rivers of my memory,
Dm7
G7
C
Dm7
G7
C
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind, (repeat last 2 lines and add): ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind.
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