This is a song Steve does quite often at the end of his shows.
The chords were nicked off of onefinebob, so you can thank him for that.
Only thing I did was tab the chords throughout the whole song,
and give the chords their proper names.
Chords defined at the end.
It's knowing that your door is always
Dmmaj7 Dmmaj7
open and your path is free to walk
Dmmaj7
that makes me tend to leave my sleeping
Cadd2
bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and
Dmmaj7 Dmmaj7
bonds and the ink stains that have dried upon some line
Dmmaj7
That keeps you in the backroads by the
rivers of my mem'ry, that keeps you ever
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gentle on my mind
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Dmmaj7 Dmmaj7
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Dmmaj7
Or something that somebody said
Cadd2
Because they think we fit together walkin'.
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or
Dmmaj7 Dmmaj7
Forgiving, when I walk along some railroad track and find
Dmmaj7
That you're moving on the backroads by the
Rivers of my mem'ry, and for hours you're just
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Gentle on my mind
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the
Dmmaj7 Dmmaj7
Junkyards and the highways come between us,
Dmmaj7
And some other woman crying to her
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Mother, 'cause she turned and I was gone.
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my
Dmmaj7 Dmmaj7
Face, and the summer sun might burn me 'till I'm blind,
Dmmaj7
But not to where I cannot see you
Walkin' on the backroads, by the rivers flowing
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Gentle on my mind
I dip my cup of soup back from the
Dmmaj7 Dmmaj7
Gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some train yard;
Dmmaj7
My beard a roughning coal pile and a
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Dirty hat pulled low across my face.
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I
Dmmaj7 Dmmaj7
Pretend I hold you to my breast and find
Dmmaj7
That you're waving from the backroads by the
Rivers of my memory, ever smilin' ever
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Gentle on my mind.
: x32010
: x32000
: x322x0 (I use the finger on the string to mute the string.
Cadd2: x32030 It makes for a faster change between the and )
: xx0231
Dmmaj7:xx0221
: xx0211
: 320001