Gentle On My Mind chords by Glen Campbell

The following is Gentle on My Mind, performed by Glen Campbell:

You really need a banjo to make this happen, but the progression seems to work well.

The "F" chord does not use the B note on the D string

The Em+C uses the C note on the B string.

Sorry I did not use the template...I'm not very skilled.

My thanks to Rod for working over the phone to figure this out.

Frank


C           Em+C      Am
It's knowing that your door is always open

             Dm Faug F G
and your path is free to walk

   Dm        Faug
That makes me tend to leave my

     F          G         C  Em+C Am  G
sleepin' bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch

      C        Em+C
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled by

   Am
forgotten words and bonds

     C          Em+C      Dm Faug F G
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line

   Dm        Faug       F      G
That keeps you in the backroads by the rivers of my mem'ry

    Dm      G      C Em+C Am  G
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

     C        Em+C       Am
It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy planted

              Dm     Faug F G
on their columns now that bind me

   Dm      Faug      F
Or somethin' that somebody said because they thought

  G       C   Em+C  Am G
we fit together walkin'

       C       Em+C       Am
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving

    C        Em+C       Dm  Faug F G
When I walk along some railroad track and find

       Dm       Faug       F     G
That you're movin' on the backroads by the rivers of my mem'ry

     Dm         G      C   Em+C  Am  G
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

      C           Em+C
Though the wheat fields and the clotheslines

      Am               Dm   Faug F G
And the junkyards and the highways come between us

      Dm      Faug      F
And some other woman's crying to her mother

      G        C Em+C Am G
cause she turned and I was gone

  C         Em+C       Am
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face

     C        Em+C       Dm  Faug F G
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind

  Dm       Faug      F        G
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads

     Dm       G     C  Em+C Am G
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

  C        Em+C
I dip my cup of of soup back from

   Am                 Dm    Faug F G
a gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some train yard

  Dm        Faug       F
My beard a roughnin' coal pile and a dirty hat

    G       C  Em+C Am G
pulled low across my face

     C         Em+C
Through cupped hands round a tin can

  Am                 Dm Faug F G
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

       Dm       Faug       F      G
That you're wavin' from the backroads by the rivers of my mem'ry

    Dm       G       C   Em+C  Am  G
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind