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Gentle on my Mind – Elvis Presley
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Elvis Presley
Gentle on my Mind (1969)
(John Hartford)
From: "From Elvis in Memphis"
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capo: 4th fret
play: C
key: E
For the original chords transpose this tab +4 to the key of E.
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
C x-3-2-0-1-0
Em/B x-2-x-0-0-0
Am7 x-0-2-0-1-0
Dm x-x-0-2-3-1
C#aug x-4-3-2-2-x
Dm7/C x-3-x-2-1-1
G 3-x-0-0-0-3
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[Intro]
| C | % |
[Verse 1]
C Em/B Am7
It's knowin' that your door is always open
C/G Dm
And your path is free to walk
Dm C#aug Dm7/C
That makes me tend to keep my sleeping bag rolled up
G C
And stashed behind your couch
C Em/B
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled
Am7 C/G
By forgotten words and bonds
C Dm
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
Dm C#aug
That keeps you in the back roads
Dm7/C G
By the rivers of my memory
Dm G C
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
[Verse 2]
C Em/B
It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy
Am7 C/G Dm
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Dm C#aug Dm7/C
Or something that somebody said because
G C
They thought we fit together walkin'
C Em/B
It's just knowing that the world
Am7 C/G
Will not be cursing or forgiving
C Dm
When I walk along some railroad track and find
Dm C#aug
That you're movin' on the back roads
Dm7/C G
By the rivers of my memory
Dm G C
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
[Verse 3]
C Em/B
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
Am7 C/G Dm
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
Dm C#aug Dm7/C
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
G C
'Cause she turned and I was gone
C Em/B
I still might run in silence
Am7 C/G
Tears of joy might stain my face
C Dm
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
Dm C#aug
But not to where I cannot see
Dm7/C G
You walkin' on the back roads
Dm G C
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind
[Verse 4]
C Em/B
I dip my cup of soup back
Am7 C/G Dm
From a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron in some train yard
Dm C#aug
My beard a rustlin' coal pile
Dm7/C G C
And a dirty hat pulled low across my face
C Em/B
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can
Am7 C/G Dm
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
Dm C#aug
That you're waitin' from the back roads
Dm7/C G
By the rivers of my memory
Dm G C
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind
[Outro]
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(repeat and fade)
