歌曲名 Gentle On My Mind 歌手名 Frank Sinatra

作词：John Hartford

作曲：John Hartford

It 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 knowing I not shackled

By forgotten words and bonds

And things little guys

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

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

Because 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 till I blind

But not to where I cannot see

You walking on the back roads

By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from

A gurgling crackling cauldron

In some train yard

My beard a rustling 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 waiting from the back roads

By the rivers of my memory

Ever smiling

Ever gentle on my mind