Intro + Riff
C C C C
Verse 1
It's C knowing that your door is always open
and your path is free to Dm walk
that Dm makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up
and G7 stashed behind your Ccouch
And it's C knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds
and the ink stains that have dried upon some Dm line
That Dm keeps you in the backroads by the rivers of my memoryG7
that keeps you ever gentle on my C mind
Verse 2
It's C not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that Dm bind me
Or Dm something that somebody said because they think we G7 fit together Cwalkin'.
It's just C knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgivin
when I walk along some railroad track and Dm find
That you're Dm moving on the backroads by the rivers of my memory
and for Dm hours you're just G7 gentle on my Cmind
Verse 3
C Though the wheat fields & the clothes lines and junkyards & the highways come betDmween us,
And Dm some other woman's crying to her mother, 'cause she G7 turned and I was Cgone.
C I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
and the summer sun might burn me 'till I'm Dm blind
But not to Dm where I cannot see you walkin on the backroads
Dm by the rivers flowing G7 gentle on my Dmmind
Verse 4
I C dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin' cracklin' cauldron in some trainDmyard;
My Dm beard a roughning coal pile and a dirty hat pulled G7 low across my Cface.
Through C cupped hands 'round a tin can I pretend I hold you to my breast and Dm find
That Dm you're waving from the backroads by the rivers of my G7 memory
ever smilin' ever gentle on my C mind.
Outro
G C