Elvis Presley - Gentle On My Mind: chords

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It's knowin' that your door is always open
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and your path is free to walk.
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag
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rolled up and stashed behind your couch.
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled by forgotten
words and bonds and the ink stains that have
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dried upon some line.
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers
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of my memory..that keeps you ever gentle on my
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mind.

It's not clingin' 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 movin'
on the back roads by the
rivers of my memory and for hours
you're just gentle on my mind.

Though the wheat fields
and the clothes lines and the
junkyards and the highways come between us.
And some other woman's cryin'
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 back
roads by the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind.

I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin'
cracklin' cauldron in some train yard.
My beard a rustlin' coal pile and a dirty
hat pulled low
across my face.
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can,
I pretend to hold
you to my breast and find..
that you're waitin' from the
back roads by the rivers of my memory,
ever smilin', ever
gentle on my mind.