Dean Martin Lyrics
"Gentle On My Mind"
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(John Hartford)
It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried up on some line
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my memory
That 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 fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving when I walk along
some railroad track by the rivers of my memory
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind.
Well, I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling crackling caldron in some train yard
My beard a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I pretend I hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the back roads by the river of my memory
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind...
It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried up on some line
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my memory
That 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 fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving when I walk along
some railroad track by the rivers of my memory
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind.
Well, I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling crackling caldron in some train yard
My beard a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I pretend I hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the back roads by the river of my memory
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind...
This song is from the album "Gentle on My Mind [Reprise]", "Dino: The Essential Dean Martin", "Lay Some Happiness On Me: The Reprise Years and Mo", "Lay Some Happiness On Me: The Reprise Years (Repri", "Dino: Golden Years [SPV]", "Cocktail Hour with Dean Martin [Golden Stars]", "Country Side of Dean Martin", "Gentle on My Mind/I Take a Lot of Pride in What I", "Hurtin' Country Songs [Capitol/EMI Records]", "Very Best of Dean Martin: The Capitol & Reprise Ye", "Love Songs [Mastersound]", "Platinum Collection", "Dino: The Essential Dean Martin (Special Platinum", "Love Songs - Australia", "Million And One" and "Best of Dean Martin [Timeless] [EMI Music Special".