Johnny Cash – Gentle On My Mind chords

[Intro]

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GIt's knowin' that your door is always open
                         AmAnd your path is free to walk
     DThat makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag
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Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

GAnd it's knowin' I'm not shackled

By forgotten words and bonds
                                             AmAnd the ink stains that have dried upon some line
     DThat keeps you in the back roads
DBy the rivers of my memory
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That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

GIt's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy
                                       AmPlanted on their columns now that bind me
        DOr some-thing that somebody said be-cause
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They thought we fit together walkin'

GIt's just knowing that the world

Will not be cursing or forgiving
                                          AmWhen I walk along some railroad track and find
            DThat you're movin' on the back roads

By the rivers of my memory
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And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

GThough the wheat fields and the clothes lines
                                          AmAnd the junkyards and the highways come between us
         DAnd some other woman's cryin' to her mother
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'cause she turned and I was gone

GI still might run in silence

Tears of joy might stain my face
                                          AmAnd the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
    DBut not to where I cannot see

You walkin' on the back roads
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By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind

GI dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron
              AmIn some train yard
   DMy beard a rustlin' coal pile
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And a dirty hat pulled low across my face

GThrough cupped hands 'round a tin can
                                       AmI pretend to hold you to my breast and find
            DThat you're waitin' from the back roads

By the rivers of my memory
                                [Riff 1 twice] end on slow strum of G
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind