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Gentle On My Mind - Dean Martin C C It's knowing that your door is always open Dm and your path is free to walk Dm that makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up G C and stashed behind your couch C And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds Dm and the ink stains that have dried upon some line Dm G That keeps you in the backroads by the rivers of my memory C that keeps you ever gentle on my mind C Dm It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that bind me Dm G C Or something that somebody said because they think we fit together walkin'. C It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgivin Dm when I walk along some railroad track and find Dm That you're moving on the backroads by the rivers of my memory Dm G C and for hours you're just gentle on my mind C Dm Though the wheat fields & the clothes lines and junkyards & the highways come between us, Dm G C And some other woman's crying to her mother, 'cause she turned and I was gone. C I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face Dm and the summer sun might burn me 'till I'm blind Dm But not to where I cannot see you walkin on the backroads Dm G Dm by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind C Dm I dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin' cracklin' cauldron in some trainyard; Dm G C My beard a roughning coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face. C Dm Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I pretend I hold you to my breast and find Dm G That you're waving from the backroads by the rivers of my memory C ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind. G C