歌曲名 Gentle On My Mind 歌手名 Madeleine Peyroux

作词：John Hartford

作曲：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 are dried

upon some line

That keeps you

in the backroads

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 bind 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 walk along

some railroad

track and find

That you're moving

on the backroads

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 junkyards

and the highways

come between us

And some other man's

cryin' to his mother

'Cause he 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 'til

I'm blind

But not to where

I cannot see you

walkin' on the backroads

By the rivers

flowing gentle

on my mind

I dip my cup of soup

back from a gurglin'

Cracklin' caldron

in some train yard

My beard a rustling

cold towel and

A dirty hat pulled low

across my face

Through cupped hands

'round the tin can

I pretend to hold you

to my breast and find

That you're waiting

from the backroads

By the rivers of

my memories

Ever smilin' ever gentle

on my mind