Johnny Cash – Gentle On My Mind (Guitar)

Capo 2

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Chords

[Intro]

e|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|
D|--0--2--4--5--|
A|--------------|
E|--------------|

Then [Riff 1] twice to starting G

       ˅  ˄ ˅     ˅  ˄ ˅     ˅  ˄ ˅     ˅  ˄ ˅
e|-----3--3-3-----3--3-3-----3--3-3-----3--3-3--|
B|-----0--0-0-----0--0-0-----0--0-0-----0--0-0--|
G|-----0--0-0-----0--0-0-----0--0-0-----0--0-0--|
D|--5--5--5-5--4--4--4-4--2--2--2-2--0--0--0-0--|
A|----------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------|
(repeat intro 2x)

G
It's knowin' that your door is always open

                         Am
And your path is free to walk

     D
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag

[Riff 1] Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

G
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled

By forgotten words and bonds

                                             Am
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line

     D
That keeps you in the back roads

D
By the rivers of my memory

[Riff 1] That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

G
It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy

                                       Am
Planted on their columns now that bind me

        D
Or some-thing that somebody said be-cause

D [Riff 1] They thought we fit together walkin'

G
It's just knowing that the world

Will not be cursing or forgiving

                                          Am
When I walk along some railroad track and find

            D
That you're movin' on the back roads

By the rivers of my memory [Riff 1 twice] And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

G
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines

                                          Am
And the junkyards and the highways come between us

         D
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother

[Riff 1] 'cause she turned and I was gone

G
I still might run in silence

Tears of joy might stain my face

                                          Am
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind

    D
But not to where I cannot see

You walkin' on the back roads [Riff 1 twice] By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind

G
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron

              Am
In some train yard

   D
My beard a rustlin' coal pile

[Riff 1] And a dirty hat pulled low across my face

G
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can

                                       Am
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

            D
That you're waitin' from the back roads

By the rivers of my memory [Riff 1 twice] end on slow strum of G Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind - - - Based on the "Unearthed" album version with Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2adBKwqiheE8TJhfpHE9x6?si=L-jnZldLSq2ZEnPmdO3s0g Song originally by John Hartford