The following is Gentle on My Mind, performed by Glen Campbell:
You really need a banjo to make this happen, but the progression seems to work well.
The âFâ chord does not use the B note on the D string
The Em+C uses the C note on the B string.
Sorry I did not use the template...I'm not very skilled.
My thanks to Rod for working over the phone to figure this out.
Frank
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It's knowing that your door is always open
and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my
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sleepin' bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
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And it's knowin' I'm not shackled by
forgotten words and bonds
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And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the backroads by the rivers of my mem'ry
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That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
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It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy planted
on their columns now that bind me
Or somethin' that somebody said because they thought
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we fit together walkin'
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It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving
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When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're movin' on the backroads by the rivers of my mem'ry
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And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
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Though the wheat fields and the clotheslines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman's crying to her mother
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cause she turned and I was gone
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I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
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And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads
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By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
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I dip my cup of of soup back from
a gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some train yard
My beard a roughnin' coal pile and a dirty hat
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pulled low across my face
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Through cupped hands round a tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're wavin' from the backroads by the rivers of my mem'ry
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Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind