Gentle On My Mind chords by John Hartford

In the verses, there's a pedal G.
Intro and 4 verses.


[INTRO]
C | | | |


[VERSE 1]
   C         Cmaj7      C6
It's knowing that your door is always open
     C          Dm
And your path is free to walk
   Dm        Dmmaj7      Dm7
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
       G         C
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
     C        Cmaj7
And it's knowing I'm not shackled
   C6        C
By forgotten words and bonds
    C          C        Dm
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
   Dm        Dmmaj7
That keeps you on the back roads
    Dm7     G
By the rivers of my memory
   Dm       G      C
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

[VERSE 2]
     C          Cmaj7
It's not clinging to the rocks   and ivy
C6        C        Dm
Planted on their columns now that binds me
  Dm         Dmmaj7
Or something that somebo - dy said
 Dm7          G      C
Because they thought we fit together walking
     C        Cmaj7       C6      C
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving
    C                 Dm7
when I walk along some railroad track and find
      Dm        Dmmaj7
That you're moving on the back   roads
    Dm7     G
By the rivers of my memory
    Dm        G      C
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind


[VERSE 3]
      C          Cmaj7
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
    C6        C        Dm7
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
     Dm      Dmmaj7    Dm7
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
      G        C
'Cause she turned and I was  gone
 C         Cmaj7       C6         C
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
    C                 Dm7
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
    Dm       Dmmaj7     Dm7      G
Oh, but not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads
    Dm       G      C
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind


[VERSE 4]
 C       Cmaj7      C6
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin',
     C        Dm
Cracklin' cauldron in some train yard
  Dm         Dmmaj7
My beard a rustling, a cold towel,
   Dm7       G       C
and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
    C            Cmaj7
Through cupped hands 'round the tin can
   C6        C        Dm7
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
      Dm        Dmmaj7
That you're waiting from the back roads
    Dm7     G7
By the rivers of my memories
   Dm      G      C  | Csus4 | C | C7sus4 | C |