Primeira Parte: G G7M It's knowing that your door G6 G5 Is always open and your path Am Is free to walk That makes me tend Am7M Am7 To leave my sleeping bag rolled up D G And stashed behind your couch Segunda Parte: G And it's knowing G7M I'm not shackled by G6 G5 Forgotten words and bonds And the ink stains that Am Have dried upon some line Am7M That keeps you on the back roads Am7 D By the rivers of my memory Am7 D G That keeps you ever gentle on my mind Repete a Primeira Parte: G G7M It's not clinging to the rocks G6 G5 And ivy planted on their columns Am Now that bind me Am7M Or something that somebody said Am7 D Because they thought we fit G Together walkin' Repete a Segunda Parte: G It's just knowing G7M That the world will not be G6 G5 Cursing or forgiving When I walk along Am Some railroad track and find Am7M That you're moving on the back roads Am7 D By the rivers of my memory Am7 And for hours you're just D G Gentle on my mind Repete a Primeira Parte: G Though the wheat fields G7M And the clothes lines G6 And the junkyards G5 Am And the highways come between us Am7M And some other woman's crying Am7 To her mother D G 'cause she turned and I was gone Repete a Segunda Parte: G G7M I still might run in silence G6 G5 Tears of joy might stain my face G And summer sun might burn me Am Till I'm blind Am7M But not to where I cannot see Am7 D You walkin' on the back roads Am7 By the rivers D G Flowing gentle on my mind Repete a Primeira Parte: G G7M I dip my cup of soup G6 Back from the gurglin' G5 Crackling cauldron Am In some train yard Am7M My beard, a rustling cold towel Am7 D And a dirty hat pulled low G Across my face Repete a Segunda Parte: G Through cupped hands G7M 'round a tin can G6 I pretend I hold you G Am To my breast and find Am7M That you're wavin' from the back roads Am7 D By the rivers of my memories Am7 Ever smilin' D G Ever gentle on my mind Gentle on my mind You are gentle on my mind