Chords for Tim O'Brien "Gentle On My Mind"

[Gm] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
[Gm] _ [F] _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _
[Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] It's knowing [Am] that your door [Dm] is always open [F] and your path is free [Gm] to walk
It _ _ _ makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up [C] and stashed behind [F] your couch
[C]
It's [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] knowing [C] I'm not shackled [Dm] by [F] forgotten words or bonds or the ink stains that have dried upon some [Gm] line
_ It _ _ _ keeps you on the back roads by the rivers [C] of my [G] memory.
It keeps [C] you ever gentle [F] on my mind
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] It's [F] not clinging to [C] the rocks [G] and [Dm] ivy [F] planted all the [Cm] columns [Gm] now that minds me
_ Something _ _ that [D] somebody [Gm] said because they [C] thought we fit [F] together walking
[C] _ [Gm] _ [Dm] Knowing [C] _ _ [F] _
[C] that the world will [Dm] not be cursing [F] and forgiving as I walk along the railroad track [Gm] and find
_ You're _ _ _ _ moving on the back roads by the rivers [C] of my memory
[Gm] For I [C] was just gentle [F] on my [C] mind
[Dm] Though _ [C] _ [F] the highways [C] and the wheat fields [Dm] and the clotheslines and the junkyards come [Gm] between us _ _ _
Some other [D] woman crying to [Gm] her mother cuz she [C] turned and [F] I was gone [Am] _ [Dm] I
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[F] Still might [C] run in silence [Dm] tears of joy might [F] stain my face
The summer sun might burn me till [Gm] I'm blind _
_ _ _ _ Not to where [D] I [Gm] cannot see walking on the back [C] roads
by the rivers flowing gentle on [F] my [Am] mind [Dm] I
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[Gm] _ _ [D] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ [F] _
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[Bb] _ [F] _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ [F] _ [C] _ [F] _
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[F] Tip my [G] cup of soup back from a [F] gurgling crackling cauldron in [Gm] some train yard
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My [Gm] beard roughing and cold pile a dirty hat [C] pulled low [F] across my [Am] face
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[F] Chopped hands [E] around a tin can [Dm] I pretend to [C] hold you to my [Gm] breast and fine _ _ _ _
As you're waving from the back roads by the rivers [C] of my [Gm] memory ever smiling [C] ever gentle [Am] on my
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Thank _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[N] _ _ you very much _ _ _
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