Chords for John Hartford - Learning To Smile -03 Gentle On My Mind + Way Down The River Road

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[A] It's knowing [G#m] that your door is [F#m] always open [Bm] and your path is free to walk _ _
_ _ _ _ And makes me [A#] tend to leave my sleeping [A] bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
[E] _ _ [A] And _ _ _ it's knowing [G#] I'm not shackled [B] by forgotten words [E] and bonds [A] and the ink stains that have dried [Bm] upon some line
_ _ That _ _ _ _ keeps you [A#] in the back [Dm] roads by the rivers of [G#] my memory, _ [D#m] keeps you [C] ever gentle [A] on my mind
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_ [A] It's not clinging [G#] to the rocks and [Bm] ivy planted on their columns now that binds me
_ _ Or _ _ something [A#] that somebody [A] said because they thought [G#] we fit [A] together walking
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_ _ just knowing that [G#m] the world will [F#] not be cursing or [E] forgiving [A] when I walk along some [Em] railroad [Bm] track and find _ _
That _ _ you're waving from [A#] the back [A] roads by the rivers of [G#] my memory, [F#] for hours [E] you're just gentle on [A] my _ [C#m] mind _
[F#] _ [A] _ _ _ All the [E] hoop fields and clotheslines and junkyards and the highways come [B] to peace
_ And _ _ _ _ some mother [A#] woman crying to [A] her mother cause she turned and I was gone
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[F#] I [A] _ _ _ _ still might [G#] run in the silence, tears [F#] of joy might [E] stain my face [A] and a summer sun might burn [B] me till I'm blind _ _
But _ _ [Bm] _ _ not to where [A#] I cannot [A] see you walking on [G#] the back roads by the rivers [E] flowing gentle on [A] my mind
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I dip [G#m] my cup of soup back [F#] from a gurgling [E] crackling cauldron [Bm] in some train yard _
My _ _ _ _ beard [A#] roughing in coal [A] pile and a dirty hat [G#] pulled low [A] across my face
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_ _ Through cup tans [G#] round a tin [F#] can I pretend to hold you to my [Bm] breast and find _ _ _ _ _ _
That you're waving from [A#] the back roads [A] by the rivers [C#m] of my memory, [F#] ever smiling, [A] ever gentle on my [C#m] mind
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_ _ _ _ _ Now where'd you get your whiskey and [B] where'd you get your [E] rum I got it down I found straight at number 99
Ain't it gone gone gone ain't it [D#] long [C#m] gone ain't it [B] gone gone gone down [E] a river low
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a going to Paducah just [B] to look [Am] around if things don't [B] suit me I'll find [E] another town
Ain't it gone gone gone ain't it long gone ain't it gone gone [B] gone down a [E] river low _ _
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_ I'm a riding on the street car looking north of town eating [B] salted crackers five [E] bucks a pound
Ain't it gone gone gone ain't [B] it long [E] gone ain't it gone gone [G#m] gone down [E] a river low
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Now _ _ ain't it gone gone gone ain't it long gone ain't it gone [G#m] gone gone [E] down a river low _ _ _ _
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