Gentle On My Mind
Circle D
218
Les Hughes

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
The men star left now
Turn thru at home, with the corner allemande
Swing your own and promenade
 You're moving on the backroads
    By the rivers of my memory
    For hours you're just 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
 You're moving on the backroads
    By the rivers of my memory
    For hours you're just (gentle on my mind) 

CLOSER

Sides face, grand square
 The wheat fields & clotheslines & junk cars
    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 stood in rain in silence till the doorknob stained 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

 You're moving on the backroads
    By the rivers of my memory
    For hours you're just 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