C Cmaj7 C6 Dm DmMaj7 Dm7 G7 Co Dm6 G7 CMaj7
inverse inverse inverse open open
e |---8---|---7---|---5---|---1---|---1---|---1---|---1---|-------|---1---|---1---|-------|
B |---5---|---5---|---5---|---3---|---2---|---1---|-------|---1---|-------|-------|-------|
G |---5---|---5---|---5---|---2---|---2---|---2---|-------|-------|---2---|-------|-------|
D |---5---|---5---|---5---|-------|-------|-------|-------|---2---|-------|-------|---2---|
A |-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|---2---|---3---|-------|---2---|---3---|
E |-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|---3---|-------|-------|---3---|-------|
Where the lines end with an open "C" chord, followed by alternating CMaj7 and C play the open CMaj7.
Return to the inverse C chords with the start of the next line.
[Verse 1]
C Cmaj7 C6 Cmaj7 Dm DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6
It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
Dm DmMaj7 Dm7 G7 Co CMaj7 Co CMaj7
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch.
C Cmaj7 C6 Cmaj7
And its knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds,
C Cmaj7 Dm DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6
and the ink stains that have dried up on some line.
Dm DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6
That keeps you in the backroads, by the rivers of my mem'ry,
Dm Dm7 Dm6 G7 Co CMaj7 Co CMaj7
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind.
[Verse 2]
C Cmaj7 C6 Cmaj7 Dm DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6
Its not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that bind me
DmMaj7 Dm7 G7 Co CMaj7 Co CMaj7
Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walkin'
C Cmaj7 C6 Cmaj7
Its just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving
C Cmaj7 Dm DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6
When I walk along some railroad track and find.
DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6
That you're moving on the backroads by the rivers of my memory
Dm Dm7 Dm6 G7 Co CMaj7 Co CMaj7
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind.
[Verse 3]
C Cmaj7 C6 Cmaj7 Dm DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6
Through the wheatfields and the clotheslines and the junkyards and the highways come between us.
DmMaj7 Dm7 G7 Co CMaj7 Co CMaj7
And some other woman crying to her mother cause she turned and I was gone.
C Cmaj7 C6 Cmaj7
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face,
C Cmaj7 Dm DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6
and the summer sun might burn me till Im blind
DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6
But not to where I cannot see you walkin on the backroads
Dm Dm7 Dm6 G7 Co CMaj7 Co CMaj7
by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind.
[Verse 4]
C Cmaj7 C6 Cmaj7 Dm DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6
I dip my cup of soup back from some gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some train yard.
DmMaj7 Dm7 G7 Co CMaj7 Co CMaj7
My beard a roughnin coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face.
C Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 Dm DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6
Through cupped hands round a tin can, I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
DmMaj7 Dm7 Dm6 Dm Dm7 Dm6 G7 Co
That you're wavin from the backroads by the rivers of my memory Ever smilin ever gentle on my mind.
