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That makes me tend to
leave my sleeping bag

Rolled up and stashed
behind your couch
And it's knowin' that I'm not
schackled by forgotten
words and bonds
And the ink stains that are
dried up on some line
That keeps you in the back
roads by the rivers of my
And it's knowin' that I'm not
schackled by forgotten
words and bonds
And the ink stains that are
dried up on some line
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 I be planted on their
columns now that bind me
Or something that
somebody said

Because they thought we'd
fit together walkin'
It's just knowing that the
word will not be cursing

or forgiving
When I walk along some
railroad track and find

That you're movin' on the
backroads by the rivers of
my memory
And for hours you're just
gentle on my mind
Though the wheat fields
and the clothes lines and
the junk yards
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 walk along the
back roads by the rivers
flowin' gentle on my mind
I dip my cup of soup back
from a gurglin', cracklin'
cauldron in some train yard
My beard a restin' in a cold
towel
I dip my cup of soup back
from a gurglin', cracklin'
cauldron in some train yard
Through cupped hands,
round a tin can,

I pretend to hold you to
my breast and find
That you're waitin' from the
back roads, by the rivers
of my memory

Ever smilin',
ever gentle on my mind
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Title
Gentle On My Mind
Artist
Glen Campbell
Brand
Sweet Georgia Brown
(23 Other Versions)
Codes
SGB0041-06 SGB2-041-06 SGB41-06
Genres
adult standards, arkansas country, brill building pop, classic country pop, folk, folk rock, mellow gold, nashville sound, singer-songwriter, soft rock, classic rock, lounge