Seasick Steve – Gentle On My Mind chords

INTRO:  C  Cmaj7  Am/C   Cmaj7

     C                 Cmaj7It's knowing that your door is always
Am/C            Cmaj7           Dm   Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7open and your path is free to walk
     Dm               Dmmaj7that makes me tend to leave my sleeping
Dm7               G7                  C     Cmaj7  Cadd2  Cbag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
         C               Cmaj7           Am/CAnd it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and
Cmaj7         C                    Cmaj7           Dm  Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7bonds and the ink stains that have dried upon some line
     Dm               Dmmaj7That keeps you in the backroads by the
Dm7          G7          Dmrivers of my mem'ry, that keeps you ever
G7           C    Cmaj7  Cadd2  Cgentle on my mind

     C                   Cmaj7It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Am/C               Cmaj7            Dm   Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7Planted on their columns now that bind me
   Dm             Dmmaj7Or something that somebody said
Dm7                   G7           C       Cmaj7  Cadd2  CBecause they think we fit together walkin'.
          C                Cmaj7             Am/CIt's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or
Cmaj7             C               Cmaj7              Dm  Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7Forgiving, when I walk along some railroad track and find
            Dm            Dmmaj7That you're moving on the backroads by the
Dm7          G7          DmRivers of my mem'ry, and for hours you're just
G7           C    Cmaj7  Cadd2  CGentle on my mind

           C                    Cmaj7Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the
Am/C                Cmaj7           Dm    Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7Junkyards and the highways come between us,
         Dm          Dmmaj7And some other woman crying to her
Dm7                G7               C     Cmaj7  Cadd2  CMother, 'cause she turned and I was gone.
              C               Cmaj7        Am/CI still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my
Cmaj7         C                Cmaj7             Dm  Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7Face, and the summer sun might burn me 'till I'm blind,
    Dm             Dmmaj7But not to where I cannot see you
Dm7            G7                DmWalkin' on the backroads, by the rivers flowing
G7           C    Cmaj7  Cadd2  CGentle on my mind

      C              Cmaj7I dip my cup of soup back from the
Am/C                  Cmaj7            Dm   Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7Gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some train yard;
   Dm                Dmmaj7My beard a roughning coal pile and a
Dm7              G7            C     Cmaj7  Cadd2  CDirty hat pulled low across my face.
        C            Cmaj7    Am/CThrough cupped hands 'round a tin can I
Cmaj7     C              Cmaj7      Dm  Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7Pretend I hold you to my breast and find
     Dm                     Dmmaj7That you're waving from the backroads by the
Dm7          G7           DmRivers of my memory, ever smilin' ever
G7           C    Cmaj7  Cadd2  CGentle on my mind.