Gentle On My Mind Lyrics - Johnny Cash

Well, it's knowin' that your door is always open 

And your path is free to walk 

That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag rolled up 

Stashed behind your couch 

And it's knowin' I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds 

And the ink stains that have dried upon some lines 

That keeps you in the back roads 

By the rivers of my memory and keeps you ever gentle on my mind 

It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy 

Planted on their columns now that bind me 

Or somethin' that somebody said 'cause 

They thought we fit together walkin' 

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It's just knowin' that the world will not be cursin' or forgivin' 

When I walk along some railroad track and find 

That you're movin' on the back roads 

By the rivers of my memory and for hours you're just gentle on my mind 

Though the wheat fields and the coal mines and the junkyards 

And the highways come between us 

And some other woman's cryin' to her mother 

'Cause she turned and I was gone 

I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face 

And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind 

But not to where I cannot see 

You walkin' on the back roads by the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind 

I dip my cup of soup 

From some gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some train yard 

My beard a roughenin' coal pile 

And a dirty hat pulled low across my face 

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Through cupped hands 'round a tin can 

I pretend to hold you to my breast and find 

That you're wavin' from the back roads 

By the rivers of my memory ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind