Seasick Steve - Gentle On My Mind Lyrics






It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path's free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

It's knowin' I'm not shackled by forgotten words or bonds
Some ink stains that have dried upon some lines
That keeps you on the backroads, by the rivers of my memories
Keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy
Planted on the columns now that binds me
Or somethin' that somebody said
'Cause I thought we fit together walkin'

It's knowin' that your world will not be cursin' or forgivin'
When I walk along some railroad track and find
It's you wavin' from the backroads by the rivers of my memory
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind

Although the wheat fields and the clotheslines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
Some other woman cryin' to her mother
'Cause she turned and I was gone

I still run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind

I'd dip my cup of soup back from them gurglin'
Cracklin' cauldron in some trainyard
An' my beard roughenin' coal pile
Dirty hat pulled low cross my face

Through cupped hands and a round tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're wavin' from the backroads, by the rivers of my memory
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind

That you're wavin' from the backroads, by the rivers of my memory
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind
That you're wavin' from the backroads, by the rivers of my memory
For hours you're just gentle on my mind





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  1. m.... v....

    this is your best song

  2. k.... s....

    Wonderful and real .

  3. S.... H....

    So many covers of this song come nowhere near the great Glen Campbell’s version, but this truly does. Absolutely fantastic rendition of this brilliant song. Steve’s voice just lets you drift away, let’s your troubles ease and your mind goes off. True music from a true musician 👍🏼👍🏼

  4. R.... ....

    Steve's the man!

  5. C.... F....

    Listened to a dozen of his tunes this afternoon and this my fav. Just stumbled onto him today.

  6. G.... H....

    Speechless

  7. C.... P....

    I keep coming back to this video - beautiful

  8. J.... E....

    Ohne Worte einfach WOW 👌👌👌

  9. K.... P....

    Beautiful..

  10. J.... T....

    I don't associate Country with Love Songs, but this is something else, just beautiful, perfect maybe. The last verse in particular, makes me think of someone, especially since my beard is roughening coal and I always wear a hat low and she is always smiling

  11. R.... M....

    Good job

  12. D.... B....

    This is absolutely beautiful!!!

  13. K.... K....

    Steve's almost as hot as those two hipster lesbians with the ukulele.

  14. C.... P....

    Simply beautiful cover, he recorded a similar version on the free CD you get with "Keeping' the horse between me and the ground". Also includes some other great acoustic covers and originals.

  15. C.... B....

    Amazing Luv it Seasick Steve!

  16. C.... ....

    #NewCountryCovers

  17. r.... ....

    Yearning...

  18. �.... �....

    Not bad, that's not a bad song either
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opIYuuWxiF4
    A faint rustling along the walls, soft velvet knock
    Your pace is easy, the step from the toe to the heel
    And veiled with passion, the pupils, like a film of oil.
    Curiosity and timidity languor and fear
    Sweet swirls of the abyss and a groan on his lips -
    So freeze dead before a showcase, exhibiting the corpse mine.

    I'm a good dancer - touch the desire, I'll go out.
    Please note - the dapper, handsome and fat,
    Only slightly dimmed my coat, adorned with dust
    Yes, in open skin ostalinoe bones glisten.

    On the wall the hammer hit directly in the glass
    And debris flow will collapse in pain and evil,
    You will fall without twists-bright, but just believe me.
    Shattered life crystal clear
    Trizna in Gornja homeland soberly cut up fine linen
    I'm before you and You before me - pussy, teeth omerta.

    And the orchestra of the six Bogomolov hit the drums,
    I'll squeeze your waist in thin bony hands.
    The first dance is a quadrille, on the wide blades of the centaur,
    Forty rabid PA above the abyss, whose brainchild is the darkness.

    Who said: "Casanova does not know love" - he did not understand the question,
    I've known crazy flying on the tail of a frayed cable.
    Rusty rattle of winches and blocks-melody of delirium,
    Casanova, bent orca, dives into the bow of the minuet.

    Behind the clavicle it is an impetuous dance,
    Do not look into the keyholes of the eyes,
    There's dust and dried flies under the skull.
    I have to hand in a three-ring will wrap around Your frame,
    And then a courtly snap waltz
    Castanets of yellow teeth near your delicate ear.

    No way back-blocked and blown up the track,
    And do not break out of hand - time is crooked, and hardly right
    Sulphurous smoke was solubilise - slide on the chunks of charred meat
    Along the crimson halls of The ruler of this Century.

    That you flinched, baby-not Armageddon.
    It's the fierce roar of the lusty French horn
    In honor of one irretrievably dead, though young, person.
    And do not try to pull the criss-cross hand:
    You like the abyss - so tear after me,
    There will be a ball in the lust of the bed of the cloying muffin.

    A bowl of squirrel fat in the dark twinkle invitingly,
    Candelabra of crazy, spicy, depraved love.
    Step from the ledge, jerk to the asphalt, where the worm gets wet
    The ashes of the decision to fight the bacchian pulse in the blood.

    Who said - "Casanova charms only for the purpose of maneuver"?
    I was involved in a spicy flight on the tail of a frayed nerve,
    My pressure will crush the Himalayas and the proud Andes
    The monotonous ferocity of black and evil Saraband.

    Sanctus Deus, Sanctus fortis, Sanctus immortális, miserére nobis,
    Miserére nobis.
    Sanctus Deus, Sanctus fortis, Sanctus immortális, miserére,
    Miserére nobis.

    The crackling of torn cloth, a shameless haze
    In naked Nirvana clashed body
    The rustle of leathery wings - we lull the angels of the night.
    Wild hops obuase and chilled look,
    As the star of Edelweiss revealed inside,
    How my spine vibrates in the splash of coitus.

    Wheezing breath listen, ' t forget Pro steps on the road -
    There came over you, only this time to is waiting.
    You'll sit naked on broken black hearse
    And the mad driver grins his cheering mouth.

    Chilling and stingy will hit the Moon,
    Shudder over the croup of the driver's back,
    Scream on the road stones of the tread face.
    Mitre in dim fog under the wings of a dream
    Unravel the pentagram Netopyr and Zhanna
    And twist on vandusen flaming nonsense scarlets.

    But do not remember this in elastic intoxicating ecstasy,
    Nurture the sweetness of the agonizing wet wave.
    Stars fall to the side, lik Ameren and mammal-like,
    Time is blown up by the beast and the roof of the back is cut.

    Who said "Casanova calculating" - he lies clumsily,
    I love recklessly, to grow into a first foreign to the body.
    Midnight, hands within, soon heart of under fingers splashes,
    I was captivated by the sensuality of a flight to shrapnel exploding life!

    Again, the rustling along the walls soft velvet knock
    Again the pace is easy, the step from the toe to the heel
    And veiled with passion, the pupils, like a film of oil.
    Curiosity and timidity, exhaustion and fear
    Sweet swirls of the abyss and a groan on his lips.
    Approach. You are attracted by the showcase, which exhibited the corpse mine...

    The translation of the Latin part
    Holy God, Holy mighty, Holy immortal, have mercy on us,
    Have mercy on us.
    Holy God, Holy mighty, Holy immortal, have mercy,
    Have mercy on us.

    S. Kalugin
    November 1990-January 1991
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opIYuuWxiF4

  19. D.... T....

    Pure. Honest. Beautiful.

  20. d.... ....

    great picking and a great voice. very relaxing

  21. M.... T....

    While i am listening this song i realized that summer is over and autumn has already come...😥💔💔💔

  22. H.... r....

    Merci 😊

  23. v.... ....

    That's so good!

  24. T.... R....

    ledgend.

  25. T.... T....

    All the flash lightening players should listen to this. Poor magic.

  26. B.... W....

    Every once in awhile someone special comes along.

  27. E.... P....

    Your the best seasick. If we ever cross paths, I will open my ears and listen to everything you have to teach. You inspire me to be a better.

  28. C.... B....

    sick steve

  29. g.... u....

    Awesome Tunes.

  30. R.... N....

    Why can´t you like twice, I would like to do that!

  31. M.... W....

    Nice tribute. Mellow and gentle

  32. *.... C....

    Subbed . Well done friend . What a talent : ) **

  33. K.... D....

    Tanke you for the song

  34. 7.... m....

    I could listen to him play and sing all day!

  35. T.... ....

    The Best - STEVE

  36. C.... ....

    📌subscribe to our channel for new sessions every week. and if you have artists you'd love to see here, send them over :)

    C.... ....

    done (-;

  37. T.... D....

    Just lovely, even like the traffic passing, gives it atmosphere ... thank you Steve 🙋

  38. l.... k....

    our hearts are with you

  39. j.... ....

    Nice. Anybody know what kind of guitar he plays? Looks like a Martin 0-17 with a Gibson‘s neck.

    j.... ....

    jazzizm+ looks like some sort of Nick Lucas. Gibson made them from the late twenties through the late thirties. If you look at performances and photos of Bob Dylan in the early sixties he often played one. I believe the great Norman Blake switched to an old Nick Lucas years ago by now.... Tremendous guitars, articulate.

    j.... ....

    It's an early 1960s Guild M-20. All mahogany body. Very light build, great sounding guitar. It's well known for being on the cover of a Nick Drake album, but that one was built a little later because it didn't have the "open book" head stock like the earlier ones, as seen here and on my personal 63' M-20.

  40. A.... l....

    Best Found better!!

  41. C.... P....

    Interprétation magnifique. Merci Monsieur Seasick.

  42. P.... d....

    Wonderful

  43. C.... O....

    Very nice job young fella 👍

  44. F.... M....

    Is there any chance we could have tabs?

  45. D.... J....

    Well done, Steve. Nice custom back sling you got there.

  46. m.... ....

    Wow..nicely done!!

  47. e.... ....

    John will love this...

  48. M.... K....

    Cool man..............

  49. D.... F....

    ...И свой мешок я спрятал за диван... cry

  50. Z.... ....

    Too slow, but still good

  51. A.... M....

    Magnifique chanson, presque les larmes aux yeux...

  52. D.... O....

    Seasick Steve does a wonderful job of, in the act of his performance, thoroughly working the song over. Reminds me a little bit of Dave Van Ronk.

  53. S.... ....

    guitar line juuuust about to go Dust In The Wind when it turns and does Gentle On My Mind... =)

    S.... ....

    Somerset I was hoping someone else heard that.

  54. J.... S....

    Great!! God bless!!

  55. T.... S....

    Beautiful. Thanks Steve. Sad day but the music, as always will remain.

  56. m.... ....

    good song for today. thanks

  57. T.... ....

    perfect

    T.... ....

    TheReddkatt I

  58. C.... P....

    Sublime as always Steve... I bloody love you man!!

  59. A.... V....

    la mejor version desde glenn campbell

  60. l.... t....

    du pur bonheur.......merci

  61. G.... W....

    I have yet to her bad version of this song. This beautiful version is full of spirit.

  62. D.... S....

    SS - what a great version

  63. T.... ....

    Well....I wasn't expecting that. dont judge a book by the cover.

  64. J.... m....

    Beautiful awesome
    Sings with life experience God bless him
    as he has me with his song

    J.... m....

    Not his song, but he does sing it soulfully.

  65. F.... B....

    Beautiful version!

  66. s.... a....

    great version

  67. Y.... Y....

    beautiful song. your inspiring

  68. J.... M....

    Heartbreaking... BTW, just heard the guy was the last Janis Joplin boyfriend... any one confirms pls...?

  69. B.... A....

    He Makes Me Cry, So Beautiful...

    B.... A....

    Bernard Augier the same happened when I first listened to this, such a beautiful song and Steve has an amazing voice

  70. P.... A....

    Sans doute la plus belle version, merci monsieur...

  71. g.... ....

    Nice guitar! I have a D25... that guitar strap tho!

    g.... ....

    Feel better?

    g.... ....

    Better than what?

    g.... ....

    graphicism It's not about the guitar, it's 99.99% the guy who plays it...........

  72. V.... G....

    Que du bonheur !!!!!

  73. L.... K....

    merci oui fm !!

    L.... K....

    Grave!!!

  74. J.... ....

    Love this. Potential song choice for one of my travel vlog videos!

  75. L.... C....

    No me suelen entusiasmar las versiones... Pr esta vez me ha cautivado, la ha hecho suya, con su estilo y su personalidad. Preciosa voz,me ha encantado 😊

  76. M.... ....

    Damn, I just about tired enough for this to bring tears to my eyes.

  77. T.... H....

    Great job Steve !! --- fabulous piece of work

  78. A.... ....

    Beautiful song by a great voice! I love this!

  79. P.... O....

    John Hartford must be proud if he listen to this beautiful version, where ever he is ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

    P.... O....

    John gifted us with this most beautiful song, and this song probably originated from where he may be now.

    P.... O....

    I'd love to hear Glen Campbell's guitar playing with Steve's singing on this.

  80. K.... K....

    Good granny!

  81. M.... M....

    As soon as he said "ya ready" with that accent i knew it would be really good!

  82. R.... ....

    Well Done :D

  83. y.... d....

    feels good

  84. D.... H....

    awesome