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Johnny Cash - Gentle On My Mind (feat. Glen Campbell) Lyrics

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  • (J. 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 line
  • That keeps you in the back roads
  • By the rivers of my memory
  • That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
  • It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy
  • Planted on their columns now that bind me
  • Or something that somebody said because
  • They thought we fit together walkin'
  • 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 movin' on the back roads
  • 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 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 a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron
  • In some train yard
  • My beard a rustlin' 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 waitin' from the back roads
  • By the rivers of my memory
  • Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind

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