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Gentle On My Mind by Glen Campbell - Guitar Chords

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            Song: Gentle on my mind
Artist: Glen Campbell
Composer: John Hartford
Album: Gentle on my mind
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar-) 26th May 2017

CAPO: 1st fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Eb)

To add more interest, pick an alternating bass note pattern:
D Dmaj7 and D7 alternate D to A on the open 4th & 5th strings.
Em EmM7 and Em7 alternate with E to B bass note on the 5th 
and 6th strings.
On the A7 alternate A to E bass on the open 5th and 6th strings.

Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
D     = xx0232              Em   = 022000    A7 = x02020
Dmaj7 = xx0222              EmM7 = 021000
D6    = xx0202 or xx0432    Em7  = 020000

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[Intro]
   D
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[Verse 1]
     D                 Dmaj7          D6
It's knowing that your door is always open,
         Dmaj7           Em
And your path is free to walk,
     Em               EmM7              Em7
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up,
    A7                  D
And stashed behind your couch,
         D               Dmaj7
And it's knowing I'm not shackled...
            D6               Dmaj7
...by for - gotten words and bonds,
        D                   Dmaj7           Em
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line,
     Em               EmM7
That keeps you in the backroads,
       Em7          A7
By the rivers of my memory,
   Em7            A7           D
It keeps you ever gentle on my mind

[Verse 2]
         D               Dmaj7
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy,
D6               Dmaj7             Em
Planted on their columns, now that bind me,
   Em                    EmM7
Or something that some - body said,
     Em7                     A7           D
Be - cause they thought we'd fit together walking,
          D                Dmaj7             D6
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing,
          Dmaj7
Or for - giving,
       D               Dmaj7              Em
When I walk along some railroad track and find...
               Em            EmM7
...That you're moving on the backroads,
       Em7          A7
By the rivers of my memory,
        Em7               A7           D
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

[Verse 3]
           D                     Dmaj7
Though the wheat fields, and the clothes -lines,
         D6                Dmaj7               Em
And the junkyards, and the highways, come be - tween us,
         Em            EmM7          Em7
And some other woman's crying to her mother,
           A7                D
'Cause she turned, and I was gone,
  D                  Dmaj7             D6                 Dmaj7
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face,
        D                Dmaj7            Em 
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind,
    Em             EmM7           Em7            A7
But not to where I cannot see you walking on the backroads,
       Em7            A7           D
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

[Verse 4]
  D             Dmaj7            D6
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurgling,
          Dmaj7            Em
Crackling cauldron in some train yard,
   Em                 EmM7
My beard a roughening coal pile,
      Em7              A             D
And a dirty hat pulled low across my face,
        D                        Dmaj7 
Through cupped hands, 'round the tin can,
        D6               Dmaj7             Em
I pre - tend to hold you to my breast, and find...
               Em               EmM7
...That you're waiting from the backroads,
       Em7          A7
By the rivers of my memories,
     Em7           A7           D
Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind

[Coda]
     D   Dmaj7     D6   Dmaj7                    D
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