Gentle On My Mind-Wenche

[ti:Gentle On My Mind] [ar:Wenche] [al:I'm A Country Girl] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gentle On My Mind - Wenche [00:09.23]It's knowing that your door is always open [00:12.67]And your path is free to walk [00:16.07] [00:18.09]That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag [00:21.00]Rolled up and stashed behind your couch [00:23.62] [00:27.05]And it's knowing I'm not shackled [00:29.31]By forgotten words and bonds [00:31.45]And the ink stains that have dried upon some line [00:35.42] [00:37.99]That keeps you on the backroads [00:40.31]By the rivers of my mem'ry [00:42.87]Keeps you ever gentle on my mind [00:46.20] [00:49.01]It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy [00:51.74]Planted on their columns now that binds me [00:56.00] [00:58.10]Or something that somebody said [01:00.61]Because they thought we fit together walking [01:05.01] [01:06.73]It's just knowing that the world [01:08.75]Will not be cursing or forgiving [01:11.38]When I walk along some railroad track and find [01:15.74] [01:17.72]That you are moving on the backroads [01:20.35]By the rivers of my mem'ry [01:22.63]And for hours you're just gentle on my mind [01:27.28] [01:29.00]Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines [01:31.34]And the junkyards and the highways come between us [01:34.95] [01:37.95]And some other woman crying to her mother [01:41.40]She turned and I was gone [01:43.97] [01:47.25]I still might run in silence [01:49.25]Tears of joy might stain my face [01:51.41]And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind [01:54.54] [01:58.22]But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads [02:02.26]By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind [02:06.05] [02:09.41]The shadows freak in the autumn winds [02:11.65]That make me draw inside myself in silence [02:15.83] [02:18.17]Cross legged night I sit and watch [02:20.64]The endless chase of leaves across my yard [02:24.41] [02:27.10]And layin' down my hair brush [02:28.99]I lean back within my window seat and find [02:33.21] [02:35.75]That you're waitin' from the back roads [02:38.14]By the rivers of my memory [02:40.43]Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind [02:44.29] [02:47.10]Through cupped hands 'round a tin can [02:49.29]I pretend to hold you to my breast and find [02:52.83] [02:55.74]That you're waitin' from the back roads [02:58.14]By the rivers of my memory [03:00.17]Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind