Gentle On My Mind chords by Elvis Presley

• Capo on 4th

Gentle on my Mind – Elvis Presley

Tuning: Standard

Elvis Presley
Gentle on my Mind (1969)
(John Hartford)

From: "From Elvis in Memphis"

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capo: 4th fret
play: C
key: E

For the original chords transpose this tab +4 to the key of E.

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CHORDS

    E-A-D-G-B-e
C   x-3-2-0-1-0
Em/B  x-2-x-0-0-0
Am7  x-0-2-0-1-0
Dm   x-x-0-2-3-1
C#aug x-4-3-2-2-x
Dm7/C x-3-x-2-1-1
G   3-x-0-0-0-3


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Intro:
| C | % |


Verse 1:
   C         Em/B      Am7
It's knowin' that your door is always open
     C/G       Dm
And your path is free to walk
   Dm        C#aug      Dm7/C
That makes me tend to keep my sleeping bag rolled up
  G          C
And stashed behind your couch
     C        Em/B
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled
  Am7         C/G
By forgotten words and bonds
    C                  Dm
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
   Dm        C#aug
That keeps you in the back roads
    Dm7/C    G
By the rivers of my memory
   Dm       G      C
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind


Verse 2:
     C        Em/B
It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy
Am7       C/G       Dm
Planted on their columns now that bind me
  Dm         C#aug    Dm7/C
Or something that somebody said because
        G      C
They thought we fit together walkin'
     C        Em/B
It's just knowing that the world
      Am7      C/G
Will not be cursing or forgiving
    C                 Dm
When I walk along some railroad track and find
      Dm      C#aug
That you're movin' on the back roads
    Dm7/C    G
By the rivers of my memory
    Dm        G      C
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind


Verse 3:
      C          Em/B
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
    Am7        C/G       Dm
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
     Dm      C#aug     Dm7/C
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
      G        C
'Cause she turned and I was gone
 C         Em/B
I still might run in silence
     Am7        C/G
Tears of joy might stain my face
    C                 Dm
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
  Dm       C#aug
But not to where I cannot see
  Dm7/C     G
You walkin' on the back roads
    Dm       G      C
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind


Verse 4:
 C       Em/B
I dip my cup of soup back
    Am7        C/G       Dm
From a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron in some train yard
  Dm        C#aug
My beard a rustlin' coal pile
   Dm7/C      G       C
And a dirty hat pulled low across my face
    C           Em/B
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can
   Am7       C/G       Dm
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
      Dm        C#aug
That you're waitin' from the back roads
    Dm7/C    G
By the rivers of my memory
   Dm      G      C
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind


Outro:
| C | % |

(repeat and fade)