Alison Krauss - Gentle On My Mind Chords

[Intro]
 
C  Cmaj7  C6   Cmaj7
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
     C                 Cmaj7
It's knowing that your door is always
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open and your path is free to walk
     Dm               Dmmaj7
that makes me tend to leave my sleeping
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bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
         C               Cmaj7           C6
And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and
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bonds and the ink stains that have dried upon some line
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That keeps you in the backroads by the
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rivers of my mem'ry, that keeps you ever
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gentle on my mind
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
     C                 Cmaj7
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
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Planted on their columns now that bind me
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Or something that somebody said
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Because they think we fit together walkin'.
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It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or
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Forgiving, when I walk along some railroad track and find
      Dm              Dmmaj7
That you're moving on the backroads by the
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Rivers of my mem'ry, and for hours you're just
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Gentle on my mind
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
     C                 Cmaj7
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the
C6            Cmaj7           Dm   Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7
Junkyards and the highways come between us,
     Dm               Dmmaj7
And some other woman's crying to her
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Mother, 'cause she turned and I was gone.
         C               Cmaj7           C6
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my
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Face, and the summer sun might burn me 'till I'm blind
      Dm              Dmmaj7
But not to where I cannot see you
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Walkin' on the backroads, by the rivers flowing
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Gentle on my mind
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
     C                 Cmaj7
I dip my cup of soup back from the
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Gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some trainyard;
     Dm               Dmmaj7
My beard a roughning coal pile and a
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Dirty hat pulled low across my face.
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Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I
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Pretend I hold you to my breast and find
      Dm              Dmmaj7
That you're waving from the backroads by the
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Rivers of my memory, ever smilin' ever
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Gentle on my mind.