Folk Friday- “Gentle on My Mind” by Glen Campbell (Kate Short cover)

This is one of my favorite songs- I looove the descending bass line, it’s so folksy and I love the guitar fingerpicking in both the original John Hartford and Glen Campbell version (but I still haven’t mastered it on the guitar)! I love the story that the song tells and the traveling imagery. Hope you like it!! Lyrics- 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 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 bind 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're moving on the back roads 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 woman's cryin' to her mother 'Cause 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 back roads By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind #song #music #musician #singer #songs #acoustic #cover #singing #fy #piano