Chords for Best Live Performance of GENTLE ON MY MIND by John Hartford (1977)
Tempo:
106.3 bpm
Chords used:
Eb
Ab
Cm
Bb
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Jam Along & Learn...
[Eb] [Cm] It's knowing that your door is always open and [Eb] your path is [F] free to walk
makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled [Eb] up and stashed behind your couch
knowing I'm not shackled [Cm] by forgotten words and bonds and the exchange that it tried upon [Fm] some life
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of [Gm] my memory that keeps you ever gentle on [Eb] my mind
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that [Cm] binds me
[Ab] Or something that [Eb] somebody said to cause the thought we [Dm] fit to keep [Eb] us from walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving when I walk along some railroad [Fm] track and find
That you're waving [Eb] from the back roads by the rivers of my memory for hours you're just gentle on my mind
makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled [Eb] up and stashed behind your couch
knowing I'm not shackled [Cm] by forgotten words and bonds and the exchange that it tried upon [Fm] some life
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of [Gm] my memory that keeps you ever gentle on [Eb] my mind
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that [Cm] binds me
[Ab] Or something that [Eb] somebody said to cause the thought we [Dm] fit to keep [Eb] us from walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving when I walk along some railroad [Fm] track and find
That you're waving [Eb] from the back roads by the rivers of my memory for hours you're just gentle on my mind
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Ab
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Bb
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] It's knowing that your door is always open and [Eb] your path is [F] free to walk
_ [Eb] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Abm] That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled [Eb] up and stashed behind your couch
_ _ _ _ _ And it's knowing I'm not shackled [Cm] by forgotten words and bonds and the exchange that it tried upon [Fm] some life _ _
_ _ _ That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of [Gm] my memory that keeps you ever gentle on [Eb] my mind _ _ _ _
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that [Cm] binds me
_ _ _ [Fm] _
[Ab] Or something that [Eb] somebody said to cause the thought we [Dm] fit to keep [Eb] us from walking _ _ _ _
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving when I walk along some railroad [Fm] track and find _
_ _ _ _ That you're waving [Eb] from the back roads by the rivers of my memory for hours you're just gentle on my mind _ _ _ _
Though the wheat fields and the clotheslines and the junkyards and the highways [Ab] come
_ And _ _ _
[Cm] [F] some other woman crying [Eb] to her mother cause she turned and I was gone
_ _ I _ still might run in silent tears, a joy might stain my face, and a summer sun might burn me [Ab] till I'm alive _
_ _ _ _ But not to where I cannot [Eb] see you walking on the back roads by the rivers closing on my mind _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
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_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I dip my cup, soup back from the gurgling, cracking, cauldron at [F] some train car _ _ _ _
[Ab] My [Eb] beard a [C] ruffling in coal [Eb] pile and a dirty hat pulled full across my face
_ _ _ Smooth _ cup hands round the tin [Ab] can I pin to hold you to my breast
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
That's you're waving [E] from the back [Cm] roads by the rivers [Bb] of my [Eb] memory [F] ever smiling [Bb] and [Eb] gentle on my mind _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Abm] That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled [Eb] up and stashed behind your couch
_ _ _ _ _ And it's knowing I'm not shackled [Cm] by forgotten words and bonds and the exchange that it tried upon [Fm] some life _ _
_ _ _ That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of [Gm] my memory that keeps you ever gentle on [Eb] my mind _ _ _ _
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that [Cm] binds me
_ _ _ [Fm] _
[Ab] Or something that [Eb] somebody said to cause the thought we [Dm] fit to keep [Eb] us from walking _ _ _ _
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving when I walk along some railroad [Fm] track and find _
_ _ _ _ That you're waving [Eb] from the back roads by the rivers of my memory for hours you're just gentle on my mind _ _ _ _
Though the wheat fields and the clotheslines and the junkyards and the highways [Ab] come
_ And _ _ _
[Cm] [F] some other woman crying [Eb] to her mother cause she turned and I was gone
_ _ I _ still might run in silent tears, a joy might stain my face, and a summer sun might burn me [Ab] till I'm alive _
_ _ _ _ But not to where I cannot [Eb] see you walking on the back roads by the rivers closing on my mind _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
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_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I dip my cup, soup back from the gurgling, cracking, cauldron at [F] some train car _ _ _ _
[Ab] My [Eb] beard a [C] ruffling in coal [Eb] pile and a dirty hat pulled full across my face
_ _ _ Smooth _ cup hands round the tin [Ab] can I pin to hold you to my breast
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
That's you're waving [E] from the back [Cm] roads by the rivers [Bb] of my [Eb] memory [F] ever smiling [Bb] and [Eb] gentle on my mind _
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_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
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