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Gentle On My Mind - John Hartford

It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk

That makes me tend to leave
My sleepin' bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

And it's knowin'
I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains
That have dried upon some lines

That keeps you in the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
And keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that binds me

Or somethin' that somebody said
Because they thought we fit together walkin'

It's just knowin'
That the world will not be cursin' or forgivin'
When I walk along
Some railroad track and find

That you're moving on the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Although the wheat fields and the curled twines
And the junkyards
And the highways come between us

And some other woman cryin' to her mother
'Cause she turned and I was gone

I still might run in silence
Tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind

But not to where I cannot see you
Walkin' on the back roads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin'
Cracklin' cauldron in some train yard

My beard a roughenin' coal pile
And a dirty hat pulled low across my face

Through cupped hands 'round a tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

That you're wavin' from the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind