Gentle On My Mind-Billy White

[ti:Gentle On My Mind] [ar:Billy White] [al:Country & Western Favourites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.49]Gentle On My Mind - Billy White [00:01.96]Written by：John Hartford [00:02.68] [00:08.95]It's knowin' that your door is always open [00:11.53]And your path's free to walk [00:13.52] [00:17.52]That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag [00:20.04]Rolled up and stashed behind your couch [00:22.51] [00:26.02]It's knowin' I'm not shackled by forgotten words or bonds [00:30.14]And the ink stains that have dried upon some lines [00:33.28] [00:36.82]That keeps you on the backroads [00:38.49]By the rivers of my memories [00:40.75]That keeps you ever gentle on my mind [00:44.05] [00:47.27]It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy [00:49.62]Planted on the columns now that binds me [00:52.58] [00:55.64]Or somethin' that somebody said [00:58.04]Because that thought we fit together walkin' [01:00.95] [01:03.84]It's just knowin' that the world will not be cursin' or forgivin' [01:08.31]When I walk along some railroad track and find [01:11.63] [01:14.83]It's you wavin' from the backroads by the rivers of my memory [01:19.14]And for hours you're just gentle on my mind [01:22.42] [01:25.67]Though wheat fields and the clotheslines [01:27.54]And the junkyards and the highways come between us [01:31.01] [01:34.01]And some other woman cryin' to her mother [01:37.13]'Cause she turned and I was gone [01:39.66] [01:42.86]I still might run in silence [01:45.04]Tears of joy might stain my face [01:47.17]And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind [01:50.20] [01:53.52]But not to where [01:54.74]I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads [01:58.04]By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind [02:01.25] [02:04.46]I'd dip my cup of soup back from them gurglin' [02:07.03]Cracklin' cauldron in some trainyard [02:09.81] [02:12.68]My beard roughenin' coal pile [02:15.01]Dirty hat pulled low 'cross my face [02:17.97] [02:21.21]Through cupped hands and a round tin can [02:23.60]I pretend to hold you to my breast and find [02:26.69] [02:29.79]That you're wavin' from the backroads [02:31.93]By the rivers of my memory [02:34.14]Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind