Gentle On My Mind
(Royal 142)
Jerry Story
OPENER - BREAK
Circle left
It's knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
Left allemande your corner, come home a dosado
Left allemande
your corner, Weave the ring
And it´s knowing I´m not
shackled by forgotten tears and bounds
Swing your own and promenade
That keeps you on the backroads
by the rivers of my memory
Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind
FIGURE
Heads (sides) promenade, 1/2 way round the ring
Down the middle square thru go 4
4 hands and then, right & left thru my friend
Pass thru, trade by, swing thru the outside two
Boys you trade, turn thru somehow
Left allemande and promenade
That keeps you on the backroads
by the rivers of my memory
Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind
CLOSER
Sides face, grand square
Though
the wheat fields & clotheslines & junkyards
And the highways come between us
And some other woman's crying to her mother
Cause she turned and I was gone
Allemande and weave
I still might 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 walking
On the backroads by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
TAG
Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind
ALTERNATE TAG
I'll keep you on the backroads by the rivers
Of my memory ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind