Gentle On My Mind chords by Billy Bragg

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)



Intro:
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Verse 1:
   D
It's knowing that your door is always open
             Em
and your path is free to walk,
   A
That makes me tends to leave my sleeping bag rolled up
            D
and stashed behind your couch.

Verse 2:
   D
It's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bars
                       Em
and the ink stains that have dried upon some lines,
   A
that keeps you on the back roads by the rivers of my memory
                D
and keeps you ever gentle on my mind.

Verse 3:
     D
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy, planted on the columns,
     Em
now that binds me;
  A
or something that somebody said
                   D
because they thought we fit together walkin'.

Verse 4:
     D
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursed or forgiven
                     Em
when I walk along some railway track and find
      A
that you're waiting on the back roads by the rivers of my memory
                  D
for hours, you're just gentle on my mind.

Verse 5:
      D
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the junkyards
            Em
and the highways come between us
     A
and some other woman's crying to her mother 'cause she turned
     D
and I was gone.

Verse 6:
    D
Well, I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
                     Em
and the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind.
  A
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads
                  D
by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind.

Verse 7:
    D
Well, I dip my cup of soup back from a gurgling bubbling cauldron
    Em
in some train yard;
  A
my beard rough and the coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low
     D
'cross my face.

Verse 8:
    D
Through cupped hand, drivin' tin can,
                    Em
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
      A
that you're waiving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory,
                D
ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind.

Outro:
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