The Band Perry – Gentle On My Mind (Guitar)

     G                 GM7/F#          Em
It's knowing that your door is always open

         G/D                  Am
And your path is free to walk

     Am               Ammaj7            Am7
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag

              D                  G
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

         G               GM7/F#
And it's knowing I'm not shackled

     Em                G/D
By forgotten words and bonds

        G                   G               Am
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line

     Am               Ammaj7
That keeps you on the back roads

       Am7          D
By the rivers of my memory

     Am             D            G
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

         G               GM7/F#
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy

Em               G/D              Am
Planted on their columns now that bind me

   Am                 Ammaj7
Or something that somebody said

  Am7                   D            G
Because they thought we fit together walking

          G                GM7/F#            Em
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing

      G/D           G                                  Am
Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find

            Am               Ammaj7
That you're moving on the back roads

       Am7          D
By the rivers of my memory

        Am                D            G
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

           G                    GM7/F#
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines

        Em                G/D              Am
And the junkyards and the highways come between us

         Am            Ammaj7        Am7
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother

           D                G
'Cause she turned and I was   gone

  G                  GM7/F#           Em                 G/D
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face

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

       Am             Ammaj7         Am7            D
Oh but not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads

       Am             D            G
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

  G             GM7/F#           Em
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin'

          G/D              Am
Cracklin' cauldron in some train yard

   Am               Ammaj7           Am7
My beard* a rustlin'      cold towel

                   D             G
A dirty hat pulled low across my face (across my face)

        G                       GM7/F#
Through cupped hands 'round the tin    can

     Em               G/D              Am
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

            Am               Ammaj7
That you're waiting from the back roads

       Am7          D
By the rivers of my memories

     Am           D            G
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind

                     Em/G Emmaj7/G G
You are gentle on my mind

Em/G Emmaj7/G G      G
Ooh             yeah