Elvis Presley Gentle On My Mind
Written by John Hartford. Elvis recorded it January 15, 1969 at American Sound Studios in Memphis. Ronnie Milsap played piano and Ed Kollis played harmonica on the recording. It is available on From Nashville to Memphis-The Essential 60s Masters, From Elvis in Memphis-Back in Memphis, Suspicious Minds, The Memphis Record, Great Country Songs, and Welcome to My World.
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It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk, mmmm
That makes me tend to keep my sleeping bag rolled up
And stashed behind your couch
It's knowin' I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
It keeps you ever gentle on my mind
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that binds me
Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we'd fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursin'
Or forgiving when I walk along
some railroad track and find
That you're moving 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 clothes lines
And the junk yards 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
Walking in the back roads
By the rivers flowing gently on my mind
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurgling,
cracking cauldron in some train yard
My beard a roughened coal pile and
Have a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands around the tin cans
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 smiling ever gentle on my mind