This is a song Steve does quite often at the end of his shows.
The chords were nicked off of onefinebob, so you can thank him for that.
Only thing I did was tab the chords throughout the whole song,
and give the chords their proper names.
Chords defined at the end.
INTRO: C Cmaj7 Am/C Cmaj7
C Cmaj7
It's knowing that your door is always
Am/C Cmaj7 Dm Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7
open and your path is free to walk
Dm Dmmaj7
that makes me tend to leave my sleeping
Dm7 G7 C Cmaj7 Cadd2 C
bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
C Cmaj7 Am/C
And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and
Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 Dm Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7
bonds and the ink stains that have dried upon some line
Dm Dmmaj7
That keeps you in the backroads by the
Dm7 G7 Dm
rivers of my mem'ry, that keeps you ever
G7 C Cmaj7 Cadd2 C
gentle on my mind
C Cmaj7
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Am/C Cmaj7 Dm Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Dm Dmmaj7
Or something that somebody said
Dm7 G7 C Cmaj7 Cadd2 C
Because they think we fit together walkin'.
C Cmaj7 Am/C
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or
Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 Dm Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7
Forgiving, when I walk along some railroad track and find
Dm Dmmaj7
That you're moving on the backroads by the
Dm7 G7 Dm
Rivers of my mem'ry, and for hours you're just
G7 C Cmaj7 Cadd2 C
Gentle on my mind
C Cmaj7
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the
Am/C Cmaj7 Dm Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7
Junkyards and the highways come between us,
Dm Dmmaj7
And some other woman crying to her
Dm7 G7 C Cmaj7 Cadd2 C
Mother, 'cause she turned and I was gone.
C Cmaj7 Am/C
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my
Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 Dm Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7
Face, and the summer sun might burn me 'till I'm blind,
Dm Dmmaj7
But not to where I cannot see you
Dm7 G7 Dm
Walkin' on the backroads, by the rivers flowing
G7 C Cmaj7 Cadd2 C
Gentle on my mind
C Cmaj7
I dip my cup of soup back from the
Am/C Cmaj7 Dm Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7
Gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some train yard;
Dm Dmmaj7
My beard a roughning coal pile and a
Dm7 G7 C Cmaj7 Cadd2 C
Dirty hat pulled low across my face.
C Cmaj7 Am/C
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I
Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 Dm Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dmmaj7
Pretend I hold you to my breast and find
Dm Dmmaj7
That you're waving from the backroads by the
Dm7 G7 Dm
Rivers of my memory, ever smilin' ever
G7 C Cmaj7 Cadd2 C
Gentle on my mind.
C: x32010
Cmaj7: x32000
Am/C: x322x0 (I use the finger on the G string to mute the B string.
Cadd2: x32030 It makes for a faster change between the Cmaj7 and Am/C)
Dm: xx0231
Dmmaj7:xx0221
Dm7: xx0211
G7: 320001
