Gentle On My Mind ~ John Hartford - Glen Campbell - Elvis Presley ~ Cover w/ Gibson Hummingbird 196

(c)1967 Words & Music John Hartford, on album "Earthwords & Music" Arr. stagwolf ~~~~~~~~~ It´s knowing that your door is always open an´ your path is free to walk that makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag Rolled up an´ stashed behind your couch an´ it´s knowin´ I´m not shackled by forgotten words an´ bonds An´ the ink stains that have dried upon some line that keeps you in the backgrounds by the rivers of my mem´ry That keeps you ever gentle on my mind.. It´s not clinging to the rocks an´ ivy planted on their columns now that binds me Or somethin´ that somebody said, because they thought we fit together walkin´ It´s just knowin´ that the world will not be cursin´ or forgivin´ when I walk along some railroad track and find That you´re wavin´ on the backroads, by the rivers of my mem´ry an´ for hours you´re just gentle on my mind.. Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines an´ the junkyards and the highways come between us An´ some other woman cryin´ to her mother ´cause she turned and I was gone I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face an´ the summer sun might burn me ´til I´m blind But not to where I cannot see you walkin´ on the backroads by the rivers flowin´ gentle on my mind.. I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin´ cracklin´ cauldron in some train yard My beard a roughnin´ coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face Thru´ cupped hands ´round a tin can I pretend I hold you to my breast an´ find That you´re wavin´ from the back...