Key: Eb major
Verse 1
D
It's knowing that
your door is always open
Em
and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
A
D
rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled
by forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains
Em
that are dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads
A
by the rivers of my memory
Em
A
D
It keeps you ever gentle on my mind
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Em
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said
A
Because they thought we fit together,
D
walk in
It's just knowing that
the world will not be
Bm
D
Cursing or forgiving
when I walk along
Em
From some railroad track and find
That you're moving on the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
A
Em
And for hours you're just
A
D
gentle on my mind
Though the wheat fields
and the clothes lines
And the junkyards and the highways
Em
Come between us
And some other woman's crying
To her mother cause she turned
A
D
And I was gone I still
might run in silence
Bm
D
Tears of joy might stain my face
And a summer sun might
Em
burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you
A
Walking on the back roads
Em
A
D
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
I dip my cup of soup back
Bm
D
From a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron
Em
in some train yard
My beard a roughnin' coal pile
A
And a dirty hat pull over
D
across my face
Through cupped hands round the tin can
Bm
I pretend to hold you
D
Em
to my breast and find
That you're waitin' from
the back roads
A
By the rivers of my memories
Em
Ever smiling,
A
D
ever gentle on my mind
Outro 1
D
Bm
D
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