Gentle On My Mind-Hit Co. Masters

[ti:Gentle On My Mind] [ar:Hit Co. Masters] [al:70's Country Music, Vol. 8] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gentle On My Mind - Hit Co. Masters [00:09.93]It's knowin' that your door is always open and [00:12.76]Your path is free to walk [00:14.86] [00:18.79]That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag rolled up [00:21.81]And stashed behind your couch [00:23.92] [00:27.55]And it's knowin' I'm not shackled [00:29.22]By forgotten words and bonds [00:31.86]And the ink stains that have dried up on some line [00:35.36] [00:38.84]That keeps you in the back roads [00:40.86]By the rivers of my memory [00:42.95]And keeps you ever gentle on my mind [00:46.77] [00:49.81]It's not clingin' to the rocks and Ivy planted [00:52.50]On their columns now that bind me [00:55.46] [00:58.79]Or somethin' that somebody said [01:01.07]Because they thought we fit together walkin' [01:04.06] [01:07.45]It's just knowin' that the world will not be [01:09.93]Cursing or forgiving [01:11.42] [01:11.96]When I walk along some railroad track and find [01:15.37] [01:18.59]That you're movin' on the backroads [01:21.00]By the rivers of my memory [01:23.12]And for hours you're just gentle on my mind [01:26.63] [01:29.99]Though the wheat fields and the clotheslines [01:32.11]And the junkyards and the highways come between us [01:34.99] [01:38.59]And some other woman's crying to her mother [01:41.50]'Cause she turned and I was gone [01:44.00] [01:47.69]I still might run in silence [01:49.60]Tears of joy might stain my face [01:51.74]And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind [01:55.53] [01:58.86]But not to where [01:59.84]I cannot see you walk alone the backroads [02:03.24]By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind [02:06.84] [02:09.97]I dip my cup of of soup back from a gurgling [02:12.82]Cracklin' cauldron in some train yard [02:16.09] [02:18.87]My beard a roughened in a coal tile [02:21.03]And a dirty hat pulled low across my face [02:23.88] [02:27.74]Through cupped hands round a tin can I pretend to [02:30.30]Hold you to my breast and find [02:33.31] [02:36.37]That you're waitin' from the backroads [02:38.79]By the rivers of my mem'ry [02:40.82]Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind