Gentle On My Mind
Glen Campbell
John Hartford

Capo first fret
[4/4]
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[Intro]
      ;C               , {1} :

[Verse 1]
      ;C               ,Cmaj7           ,C6              ,Cmaj7           ,
       Dm              ,                ,                ,                ,
       Dm              ,Dmmaj7          ,Dm7             ,G7              ,
       D               ,                ,                ,                ,

       C               ,Cmaj7           ,C6              ,Cmaj7           ,
       C               ,Cmaj7           ,Dm              ,                ,
                       ,                ,Dm              ,Dmmaj7          ,
       Dm7             ,G7              ,Dm              ,G7              ,
       C               ,                ,                ,                :

[Verse 2]

[Verse 3]

[Verse 4]
      ; {2} , {3} ,Dm              ,G7              :

[Outro]
      ;C...:

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Chords
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          EADGBe
          654321
          ------
C         x32010
Dmaj7     x32000
D6maj7    x32200
Dm        xx0231
Emmaj7    xx0221
Em7       xx0211
G7        3x0001

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Notes
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  1. Play L1
  2. Play first 16 bars of [Verse 1]
  3. Play first 12 bars of [Verse 1]

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Licks
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L1
  ;1   ,   2   ,   3   ,   4   ,   :1   ,   2   ,   3   ,   4   ,   :
e-|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B-|--------------------1-----------|--------1-----------1-----------|
G-|------------------------0-------|--------------------------------|
D-|--------0--h2-------------------|0--h2-------0--h2-------0--h2---|
A-|3-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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  ;1   ,   2   ,   3   ,   4   ,   :1   ,   2   ,   3   ,   4   ,   :
e-|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B-|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G-|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D-|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A-|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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Lyrics
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It's knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

And it's knowing I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line

That keeps you in the backroads
By the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we fit together walking

It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing
Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find

That you're moving 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 junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman's 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 'til I'm blind

But not to where I cannot see
You walkin' on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin'
Cracklin' caldron in some train yard
My beard a roughening coal pile,
And a dirty hat pulled low across my face

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

That you're waiting from the backroads
By the rivers of my memories
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind

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Transcription:
  .=lead-in begin
  ;=section begin
  :=section end
  ,=measure separator (bar line)
  {=comment/note begin
  }=comment/note end
  [=section name begin
  ]=section name end
  ?=Fermata

Chords:
  A-G=chord name
  2,3,4,5,6,7,9,11,13=note number
  add=add
  aug=augmented
  dim=diminished
  b=flat
  #=sharp
  m=minor
  maj=major
  M=major
  @$%^&*=token for a chord name
  a-z=more tokens for chord name
  a-z=more note symbols
  '=2nd voicing
  ''=3rd voicing

Licks:
  Ln=lick definition (n=1-9)
  h=hammer on
  p=pull off
  r=bend and release
  s=slide
  v=bend

Usage:
  o '.' lead-in to a section
  o ';' or ':' can substitue for ','
  o only chord name, token, lick, or '{}' can lie between ',' or ';' or ':'
  o anything between '{}' is either a note reference or is user defined
  o '    '=one beat in [4/4] or [3/4] time; (four spaces)
  o 'actual' transcription
  o 'footnote' transcription
  o 'combination' transcription
  o 'implied' transcription
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