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Gentle on My Mind
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"Gentle on My Mind" is a song that was written and originally recorded by John Hartford, and released on his second studio album, Earthwords & Music (1967). It won three Grammy Awards and was listed in "BMI's Top 100 Songs of the Century".
Lyrics
It's knowin' that your door is always openAnd your path is free to walkThat makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bagRolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowin' I'm not shackledBy forgotten words and bondsAnd the ink stains that are dried upon some lineThat keeps you in the backroadsBy the rivers of my memoryIt keeps you ever gentle on my mind
Though the wheat fields and the clotheslinesAnd the junkyards and the highways come between usAnd some other woman's cryin' to her mother 'Cause she turned, and I was gone
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my faceAnd the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroadsBy the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
...Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind
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Category:Songs