Lirik dan Chord Lagu Gentle on My Mind - Billy Bragg ft. Joe Henry

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Gentle on My Mind" adalah lagu ciptaan John Hartford yang kemudian dinyanyikan oleh Billy Bragg dan Joe Henry.

Lagu ini lebih dulu memenangi Grammy Award 1968 untuk kategori Best Folk Performance dan Best Country & Western Song.

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Jesse James - The Pogues

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Gentle on My Mind" dari Billy Bragg dan Joe Henry.

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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It's knowing that your door is always open
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and your path is free to walk,
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That makes me tends to leave my sleeping bag rolled up
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and stashed behind your couch.

[Verse 2]
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It's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bars
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and the ink stains that have dried upon some lines,
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that keeps you on the back roads by the rivers of my memory
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and keeps you ever gentle on my mind.

[Verse 3]
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It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy, planted on the columns,
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now that binds me;
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or something that somebody said
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because they thought we fit together walkin'.

[Verse 4]
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It's just knowing that the world will not be cursed or forgiven
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when I walk along some railway track and find
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that you're waiting on the back roads by the rivers of my memory
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for hours, you're just gentle on my mind.

[Verse 5]
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Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the junkyards
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and the highways come between us
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and some other woman's crying to her mother 'cause she turned
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and I was gone.

[Verse 6]
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Well, I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
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and the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind.
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But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads
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by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind.

[Verse 7]
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Well, I dip my cup of soup back from a gurgling bubbling cauldron
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in some train yard;
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my beard rough and the coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low
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'cross my face.

[Verse 8]
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Through cupped hand, drivin' tin can,
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I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
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that you're waiving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory,
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ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind.

[Outro]
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