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capo 3 — sounds 3 semitones higherIntro
Verse 1
It's knowing that your door is always
Open and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping
Bag 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 are dried upon some line
That keeps you in the backroads by the
Rivers of my mem'ry, that keeps you ever
Gentle on my mind
Verse 2
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we fit together walkin'
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 moving on the backroads by the
Rivers of my mem'ry, and for hours you're just
Gentle on my mind
Verse 3
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines 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
Walkin' on the backroads, by the rivers flowing
Gentle on my mind
Verse 4
I dip my cup of soup back from a
Gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some trainyard;
My beard a roughning coal pile and a
Dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I
Pretend I hold you to my breast and find
That you're waiting from the backroads by the
Rivers of my memories, ever smilin', ever
Gentle on my mind
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