Gentle On My Mind - Wenche

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 have dried upon some line

That keeps you on the backroads

By the rivers of my mem'ry

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 and find

That you are moving on the backroads

By the rivers of my mem'ry

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 woman crying to her mother

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 'til I'm blind

But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads

By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

The shadows freak 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 waitin' from the back roads

By the rivers of my memory

Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind

Through cupped hands 'round a tin can

I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

That you're waitin' from the back roads

By the rivers of my memory

Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind