GENTLE ON MY MIND
(Capitol ST-2809)
August 28/1967
Produced by Al DeLory
Recorded:
Apr 19/1967, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (9)
May 17/1967, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (1,4,5)
June 1/1967, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (8)
July 13/1967, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (2,3,6,7,9,10,11)
1.
GENTLE ON MY MIND
(John Hartford)
« © '67 Ensign Music, BMI »
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 shacked by forgotten words and bons
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be 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 mem'ry
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines
And the junk yards and the highways come between us
And some other woman's crying to her mother cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
And a summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walking on the back roads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
I dipped my cup of soap back from a gurgling crackling caltron in some train yard
My beard a roughen coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
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 mem'ry
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind
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2.
CATCH THE WIND
(Donovan Leitch)
« © '65 Southern Music, ASCAP »
In the chilly hours and minutes of uncertainity I want to be
In the warm hold of your loving mind
To feel you all around me and to take your hand along the sand
Ah but I may as well try and catch the wind
When sundown pales the sky I want to hide a while behind your smile
And everywhere I'd look your eyes I'd find
For me to love you now t'would be the sweetest thing t'would make me sing
Ah but I may as well try and catch the wind
[ ac.guitar ]
When rain has hung the leaves with tears I want you near to kill my fears
To help me leave all my blues behind
Standing in your heart is where I want to be and long to be
Ah but I may as well try and catch the wind
[ strings ]
Ah but I may as well try and catch the wind
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3.
IT'S OVER
(Jimmie Rodgers)
« © '33 Peer International, BMI »
If time were not a moving thing and I could make it stay
This hour of love we share would always be there'd be no coming day
To shine a morning light make us realize our night is over
When you walk away from me there is no place to put my hand
Except to shade my eyes against the sun that rises o'er the land
I watch you walk away somehow I have to let you go now it's over
If you knew just how I really feel you might return and yet
There are so many times that people have to love and then forget
Though there might have been a way I have to force myself to say it's over
[ strings ]
So I turn my back and turn my colar to the wind
Move along in silence tryin' not to think at all
I send my feet before you walk the silence street before you now it's over
It's over
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4.
BOWLING GREEN
(Terry Slater - Jacqueline Ertel)
« © '67 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI / Bowling Green Music, BMI »
Way down in Bowling Green the prettiest girls I've ever seen
A man in Kentucky sure is lucky to love down in Bowling Green
Bowling Green folks treat you kind better you think your own mind
A man in Kentucky sure is lucky in Bowling Green you walk your own line
Kentucky sunshine makes the heart unfold
It warms your body and I know it touches the soul
The bluegrass is fine Kentucky owns my mind
Fields down in Bowling Green have the softest grass I've ever seen
A man in Kentucky sure is lucky to lie down in Bowling Green
[ strings - dobro ]
Kentucky sunshine makes the heart unfold...
Bowling Green girls treat you right they wear dresses cut country tight
A man in Kentucky sure is lucky he seen the Bowling Green night
A man in Kentucky well he sure is lucky he seen the Bowling Green night
A man in Kentucky well he sure is lucky he seen the Bowling Green night
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5.
JUST ANOTHER MAN
(Joe Allison - Glen Campbell)
« © '67 Campbell Allison Music, BMI »
I'd like to stay with you for a while but I have promisses to keep
I could be happy here with you but I'm a so wild oat to reap
My strenght tells me my weakness shows you make me think of coats and ties
Of babies home security and jobs that last from nine to five
I could conjure up the constant state of happiness
But I know that I am just another man
And in knowing that I know that I'll get more or less what I can get
So I'll do what I can
I have many steps to take reckless steps I cannot share
A mountain waits for me to climb and I must climb because it's there
I could conjure up...
But if you should not let me go and if you want me as I am
And for a while I'll be a God instead of just another man mhm
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6.
YOU'RE MY WORLD
(Carl Sigman - Gino Paoli - Umberto Bindi)
« © '66 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
You're my world you're every breath I take you're my world you're every move I make
Other eyes see star up in the skies but for me they shine within your eyes
As the trees reach for the sun above so my arms reach out to you for love
With your hand resting in mine I feel a power so divine
You're my world you are my night and day
You're my world you're every breath I breathe
If our love ceased to be then it's the end of my world for me
[ strings ]
With your hand resting in mine...
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7.
WORLD I USED TO KNOW
(Rod McKuen)
« © '67 Almo Music, ASCAP »
Some day in some old familiar rain will come along and know my name
And then my shelter will be gone and I'll have to move along
But till I do I'll stay awhile and track the hidden country of your smile
Some day the man I used to be will come along and call on me
And then because I'm just a man you'll find my feet are made of sand
But till that time I'll tell you lies and chart the hidden boundrys of your eyes
Some day the world I used to know will come along and lead me go
Then I'll be leaving you behind for love is just a state of mind
But till that day I'll be your man and love away your troubles if I can
And till that day I'll be your man and love away your troubles if I can
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8.
WITHOUT HER
(Harry Nilsson)
« © '67 Beechwood Music, BMI »
I spend the night in a chair thinkin' she'll be there but she never comes
And then I wake up and wiped the sleep from my eyes
And I rise to face another day without her
It's just no good anymore when you walk through the door of an empty room
And then you go inside and sat at the table for one
It's no fun when you spend the day without her
We burst the pretty baloon it took us to the Moon
Such a beautiful thing bit it's ended now
But it sounds like a lie if I say I'd rather die than live without her
[ ac.guitar - strings ]
I spend the night in a chair...
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9.
MARY IN THE MORNING
(Johnny Cymbal - Michael Lendell)
« © '67 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Nothing's quite as pretty as Mary in the morning
When through a sleepy haze I see her lyin' there
Soft as the rain that falls on summer flowers
Warm as the sunlight shinin' on her golden hair mhm
When I wake and see her there so close beside me
I want to take her in my arms the ache is there so deep inside me
And nothing's quite as pretty as Mary in the morning
Chasin' a rainbow in the dream so far away
And when she turns to touch it I kiss her face so softly
My Mary wakes to love another day mhm
My Mary's there in sunny days or stormy weather
She doesn't care cause right or wrong the love we share we share together
And nothing's quite as pretty as Mary in the evening
Kissed by the shades of night and starlight on her hair
And as we walk I hold her close beside me
Oh how tomorrows for lifetime we'll share mhm
Nothing's quite as pretty as Mary in the morning
Nothing's quite as pretty as Mary in the evening
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10.
LOVE ME AS THOUGH THERE WERE NO TOMORROW
(Harold Adamson - Jimmy McHugh)
« © '67 Cotton Club Publishing, ASCAP / Robbins Catalog, ASCAP »
Love me as though there were no tomorrow take me out of this world tonight
Take me make me forget my sorrow
So when I wake tomorrow I'll know our love was right
Kiss me as though it were now or never teach me all that our heart should know
Just love me as though there were no tomorrow
Oh my darling love me don't ever let me go
[ piano ]
Please love me as though there were no tomorrow
Oh my darling love me don't ever let me go
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11.
CRYING
(Roy Orbison - Joe Melson)
« © '61 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI / Barabara Orbison Music, BMI /
Orbi Lee Publishing, BMI / R Key Darkus Publishing, BMI »
I was all right for a while I could smile for a while
But I saw you last night you held my hand so tight as you stopped to say hello
Oh you wished me well you couldn't tell
That I'd been crying over you crying over you
Since you said so long left me standing all alone alone and crying crying crying crying
It's hard to understand that the touch of your hand can start me crying
I thought that I was over you but it's true so true
I love you even more than I did before but darling what can I do for you
No don't love me and I'll always be
Crying over you crying over you yes now you're gone but from this moment on
I'll be crying crying oh crying crying yeah crying crying over you
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