Tammy Wynette Gentle On My Mind lyrics

Gentle On My Mind by Tammy Wynette

Gentle On My Mind lyrics

It's knowing you don't try to bind my freedom with some promise made of gold 
That for you my door stays open and our love becomes a simple to A street 
And it's knowing we're not shacked by forgotten words and bons 
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line 
That keeps you on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry 
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind 
It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on some column now that binds us 
Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking 
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving 
When I'm driftin' through the market place and find 
That you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry 
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind 
[ steel ] 
Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines 
And the junk yards and the highways come between us 
And some other woman crying to her mother cause she turned and you were gone 
I still might walk for hours tears of joy might stain my face 
And a summer sun might burn me till I'm blind 
But not to where I cannot see you moving on the back roads 
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind 
[ ac.guitar ] 
The shadows freek in the autumn winds that make me draw inside myself in silence 
Cross legged night I sit and watch the endless chase of leaves across my yard 
And layin' down my hair brush I lean back within my window seat and find 
That you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry 
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind