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.
     C (x32010@1)               Em (022000@1)           CIt's (x32010@1)knowing that your door is always open 
         Em (022000@1)            Dmand (xx0231@1)your path is free to walk.

That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag 
              G (320003@1)                 C (x32010@1)  Em (022000@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C Emrolled (022000@1)up and stashed behind your couch.
         C (x32010@1)             Em (022000@1)        CAnd (x32010@1)it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten 
          Emwords (022000@1)and bonds..
        C (x32010@1)                  Em (022000@1)             Dmand (xx0231@1)the ink stains that have dried up on some line..

that keeps you in the back roads by the rivers 

of my memory..
                    G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)  Em (022000@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C Emthat (022000@1)keeps you ever gentle on my mind.

#2.
         C (x32010@1)             Em (022000@1)          CIt's (x32010@1)not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on 
      Em (022000@1)              Dmtheir (xx0231@1)columns now, that binds me.

Or something that somebody said because they thought 
   G (320003@1)           C (x32010@1)     Em (022000@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C Emwe (022000@1)fit together, walking.
          C (x32010@1)              Em (022000@1)    
It's just knowing that the world will not be 
C (x32010@1)        Em (022000@1)             C (x32010@1)             Emcursing (022000@1)or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track 
    Dmand (xx0231@1)find...

that you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory..
                          G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1) Em (022000@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C Emand (022000@1)for hours you're just gentle on my mind.

#3.
        C# (x43121@1)          Fm (133111@1)               C#Well, (x43121@1)I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling crackling 
Fm (133111@1)            D#mcaldron (xx4342@1)in some train yard.
                      
My beard a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low 
G# (xx1114@1)      C# (x43121@1)  Fm (133111@1)name="chord_x43121@1">C# Fmacross (133111@1)my face.
        C# (x43121@1)                 Fm (133111@1)       C# (x43121@1)               FmThrough (133111@1)cupped hands round a tin can..I pretend I hold you to my 
           D#mbreast (xx4342@1)and find...

that you're waving from the back roads, by the river of my memory,
     G# (xx1114@1)                      C#ever (x43121@1)smiling ever gentle on my mind.


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