Gentle On My Mind:Dean Martin.
Single #2 in UK in 1969. Album - Gentle On My
Mind - hit #14 in 1968.
(Capo 1st fret.)
#1.
C5 E5 C5
It's knowing that your door is always open
E5 D5
and your path is free to walk.
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
G5 C5 E5 C5 E5
rolled up and stashed behind your couch.
C5 E5 C5
And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten
E5
words and bonds..
C5 E5 D5
and the ink stains that have dried up on some line..
that keeps you in the back roads by the rivers
of my memory..
G5 C5 E5 C5 E5
that keeps you ever gentle on my mind.
#2.
C5 E5 C5
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on
E5 D5
their columns now, that binds me.
Or something that somebody said because they thought
G5 C5 E5 C5 E5
we fit together, walking.
C5 E5
It's just knowing that the world will not be
C5 E5 C5 E5
cursing or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track
D5
and find...
that you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory..
G5 C5 E5 C5 E5
and for hours you're just gentle on my mind.
#3.
C#5 F5 C#5
Well, I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling crackling
F5 D#5
caldron in some train yard.
My beard a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low
G#5 C#5 F5 C#5 F5
across my face.
C#5 F5 C#5 F5
Through cupped hands round a tin can..I pretend I hold you to my
D#5
breast and find...
that you're waving from the back roads, by the river of my memory,
G#5 C#5
ever smiling ever gentle on my mind.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
