GENTLE ON MY MIND
Sung by: Glen Campbell
Written by: John Hartford

One glance at the chords below will tell you how easy this song really is. If you can do a simple D chord, you can play this song.

D/Db: [000222]
D/B: [000202]
A7: [002020]
Em/D: [020000]
Asus4/G: [002030]

INTRO: [D] [D/Db] [D/B] [D/Db]

It's [D] knowing that your [D/Db] door is always [D/B] open and your [D/Db] path is free to [Em] walk [C] [A7]
That [Em] makes me tend to [Em/D] leave my sleeping [Asus4/G] bag rolled up and [A7] stashed behind your [D] couch [D/Db] [D/B] [D/Db]
And it's [D] knowing I'm not [D/Db] shackled by for[D/B]gotten words and [D/Db] bonds
Or the [D/B] inkstains that have [D/Db] dried upon some [Em] line [C] [A7]
That [Em] keeps you in the [Em/D] backroads by the [Em] rivers of my [Em/D] mem'ry
Keeps you ever [A7] gentle on my [D] mind [D/Db] [D/B] [D/Db]

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their 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're waving from the backroads by the rivers of my mem'ry
For hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheatfields and the clotheslines and the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman's crying to her mother 'cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you standing on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling crackling cauldron in some trainyard
My beard a rough'ning coalpile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
With cupped hands round a tin can I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're still there by the backroads, by the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind

OUTRO: (increasingly slow) [D] [D/Db] [D/B] [D/Db] [D]

**Tabbed by Holly**