Title=Gentle On My Mind
Singer=Glen Campbell
Category=Easy Listening
Category=Country
Artist=Glen Campbell
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It's knowin' that your door is always 
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Open and your path is free to 
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walk
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That makes me tend to leave my sleeping 
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Bag rolled up and stashed behind your 
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couch 
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And it's knowing I'm not Shackled
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by forgotten words and bonds 
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before the ink stain's been dried upon some 
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lines
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That keeps you in the backroads, 
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by the rivers of my memory
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Keeps you ever gentle on my mind
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It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
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Planted on their columns now that 
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binds me
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Or something that somebody said 
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Because they thought we 
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fit together walkin'
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It's just knowing that world will not be 
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cursing or forgiving
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When I walk along some 
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railroad track and find
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That you're moving on the backroads
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By the rivers of my memory
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Forever you're just 
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gentle on my mind
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Though the wheat fields, 
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and the clothes lines
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And the junkyards and the 
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highways come between us
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Or some other woman cryin' to her mother
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cause she turned and I was gone
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I still might run in silence, tears
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Of joy might stain my face
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And a summer sun might 
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burn me 'till I'm blind
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But not to where I cannot see you
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Walking on the backroads
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By the rivers flowin gentle on my mind
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I dip my cup of soup back from the
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Gurglin' cracklin caldron of some 
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train yard
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My beard roughing in coal-fire, with a 
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Dirty hat pulled low accross my face
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Through cupped hands round a tin can I 
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pretend to hold you 
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to my face and find....
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That you're waving in the backroads, 
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by the rivers of my memory
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Ever smilin ever gentle on my mind