Gentle On My Mind By John Hartford (Ukulele Chord Chart)
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1Berkeley Ukulele Club
Chart #055
Gentle On My Mind
Written by John Hartford
Key of C
Intro
| C | Cmaj7 | C6 | Cmaj7 |
Verse 1
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C
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Cmaj7
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C6
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Cmaj7
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Dm
| Dm7 | Dm6 | Dm7
It’s knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk,
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Dm
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Dm+7
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Dm7
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G7
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C | Cmaj7 | C6 | Cmaj7
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch.
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C
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Cmaj7
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C6
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Cmaj7
And it’s knowing I’m not shackled by for- gotten words and bonds
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C6
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C
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Dm | Dm7 | Dm6 | Dm7
and the ink stains that have dried upon some line.
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Dm
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Dm7
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Dm6
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Dm7
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G7sus4 |
G7
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C
That keeps you in the backroads, by the rivers of my memory, that keeps you ever, gentle on my mind.
| Cmaj7 | C6 | Cmaj7
Verse 2
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C
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Cmaj7 |
C6
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Cmaj7
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Dm
| Dm7 | Dm6 | Dm7
It’s not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on the columns now that binds me,
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Dm
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Dm+7
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Dm7
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G7
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C
| Cmaj7 | C6 | Cmaj7
Or something that somebody said, be- cause they thought we fit together, walkin’.
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C
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Cmaj7
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C6
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Cmaj7
It’s just knowing that the world will not be cursin’ or for- givin’
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C6
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C
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Dm | Dm7 | Dm6 | Dm7
When I walk along some railroad track and find
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Dm
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Dm7
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Dm6
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Dm7
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G7sus4
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G7
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C
That you’re moving on the backroads, by the rivers of my memory, for hours, you’re just gentle on my mind.
| Cmaj7 | C6 | Cmaj7
Verse 3
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C
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Cmaj7
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C6
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Cmaj7
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Dm
| Dm7|Dm6|Dm7
Though the wheat fields, & the clothes lines, & the junkyards, & the highways come be- tween us.
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Dm
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Dm+7 |
Dm7
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G7
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C | Cmaj7 | C6 | Cmaj7
Some other woman crying to her mother, cause she turned and I was gone.
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C
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Cmaj7
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C6
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Cmaj7
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
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C6
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C
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Dm | Dm7 | Dm6 | Dm7
and summer sun might burn me till I’m blind
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Dm
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Dm7
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Dm6
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Dm7
| G7sus4 |
G7
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C
But not to where I cannot see you walkin’ on the backroads, by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind.
| Cmaj7 | C6 | Cmaj7
Verse 4
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C
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Cmaj7
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C6
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Cmaj7
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Dm
| Dm7 | Dm6 | Dm7
I dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin’ cracklin’ caldron in some train yard,
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Dm
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Dm+7
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Dm7
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G7
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C
| Cmaj7 | C6 | Cmaj7
My beard a roughening coalpile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face,
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C
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Cmaj7
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C6
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Cmaj7
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Dm | Dm7 | Dm6 | Dm7
through cupped hands ‘round a tin can, I pre- tend I hold you to my breast and find.
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Dm
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Dm7
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Dm6
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Dm7
| G7sus4 |
G7
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C
That you’re movin from the backroads, by the rivers of my memory, ever smilin’ ever gentle on my mind.
| Cmaj7 | C6 | Cmaj7
C
Cmaj7
C6
Dm
Dm6
Dm7
Dm+7
G7
G7sus4
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