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I'll be right back, okay.
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Bb _ _ _ _ _ .
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Gb _ _ _ .
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Db _ _ .
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_ _ I know.
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Well it's knowing that your door is
Bbm always open
Db and your path is
Ebm free to walk.
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_ _ _ _ That makes me tend to leave my
Gb sleeping bag rolled
Ab up and stashed
Db behind your couch.
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_ _ And it's knowing
Fm I'm not shackled
Db by forgotten words and bonds and the ink stains that I dried
Ebm upon some lie.
_ _ _ _ That keeps you
Gb on the back roads
Ebm by the rivers
Ab of my memory.
Ebm It keeps you
Ab ever gentle
Db on my mind.
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It's not clinging
Fm to the rocks and
Bbm ivy planted
Db on their columns
Ebm now that bind me.
_ _ _ _ Or something
Gb that somebody
Ebm said because they
Ab thought we fit
Db together a-walking.
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_ _ It's just knowing
Fm that the world will not
Bbm be
Db cursed nor forgiven when I walk along some railroad
Ebm track and find.
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_ _ _ _ That you're moving
Gb on the back roads
Ebm by the rivers
Ab of my memory.
Ebm Ever hours
Ab you're just gentle
Db on my mind.
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Oh, but wheat fields and the clotheslines
Bbm and the junkyards
Db and the highways come
Ebm between us.
_ _ _ And some other
Gb woman's crying to
Ebm her mother, cause
Ab she turned and I
Db was gone.
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_ Ooh, I feel my rudder's silenced, tears
Bbm of joy might stain
Db my face.
And the summer sun might burn me till
Ebm I'm blind.
Oh, _ _ _ but not to where
Gb I cannot see
Ebm you walking
Ab on the back roads
Ebm by the rivers flowing
Ab gentle on
Db my mind.
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Lies in my cup, a soup sack from a curdling, crackling cauldron in
Ebm some train yard.
_ _ _ _ Not theater, I slid a cold
Gb towel, a dirty hat,
Ab.
pullover across
Db my face.
Across my face.
Through cup, tears and the tin can I pretend to hold you till my breast
Ebm will find.
_ _ Oh, that you're waiting from
Bb the back roads
Ebm by the rivers of
Ab my memory.
Ebm Ever smiling,
Ab ever gentle on
Db my mind.
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_ Gentle on my mind.
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_ You are gentle on my _ mind.
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Bbm You,
Db _ _ you, you.
Yeah!
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