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Composer: John Hartford

John Hartford - Gentle on My Mind lyrics



It's knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing that I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads
By the river of my memories
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world
Will not be cursing or forging
When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're moving on the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman crying to her mother
Cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence
Tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see
You walking on the back roads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling,
Crackling cauldron in some train yard
My beard a rustling coal pile
And a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands around a tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind
Songs list of album: Live from Mountain Stage (2000)
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01   I Wish We Had Our Time Again lyrics  
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06    Gum Tree Canoe lyrics Add lyrics   -
07   Gentle on My Mind lyrics   -
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10    I Wonder Where You Are Tonight lyrics Add lyrics   -
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