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

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

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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