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                                                                            Gentle on my mind

 

 

 

 

Uma das musicas mais sofisticadas e com uma das letras mais interessantes da carreira de Elvis. Uma musica que só poderia sair da sessão de memphis em 1969.  Na verdade Elvis sofreu muito com essa musica, chegou a desistir dela, mas no final tudo funcionou. Elvis à gravou no dia 14 de janeiro de 69, mas os resultados foram apenas regulares. Restou a Al Pachucki criar uns backing trackings, introduzir uma gaita e com a ajuda de Ronnie Milsap nos vocais a musica funcionou.

O resultado foi tão satisfatório que ela foi escolhida para ser uma das musicas a entrar direto no, talvez, melhor disco de Elvis, “From Elvis in Memphis”:

                 

 

            inmemphis (22K)

 

 

 

“Gentle on my mind” foi escrita por John Hartford que foi gravada em 67 , curiosamente em uma sessão produzida por Felton Jarvis:

 

                   

          jon (17K)

 

 

 

 

 

Mas foi com a versao gravada por Glen Campbel que ela se tornou internacionalmente conhecida:

 

 

      glenn (27K) 

                                              

 

 

 

Outras dezenas de versões da musica são conhecidas por gente como Patti Page, Dean Martin , Lou raws , Tammy Wynette e Garth Brooks. 

 

Curiosidade: Roberto Carlos foi processado por Hartford em meados da década de 80, por plágio. A musica “O Caminhoneiro” copiava arranjos de Gently On My Mind...

 

  

 Gentle on My Mind

(Words & music by J. Hartford)

It's knowin' that your door is always open
And you path is free to walk
That makes me tend to keep my sleeping bag rolled up
And stashed behind your couch

It's knowin' I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the heat stains that have dried up on some lovin'
That keeps you in the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
It keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns mellowed by me
Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we'd fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursin'
Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're moving on the back roads
By the rivers of my memory and for hours
You're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
And the junk yards and the highways come between us
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
'Cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence
Till' the join might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me 'till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you
Walking in the back roads
By the rivers flowing gently on my mind

I dip my cup of soup from a gurgling,
cracking cauldron in some train yard
I'm barely runnin' cold how
Have a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Who cupped hands around the tin cans
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're wavin' from the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
Ever smiling never changes on my mind

 

 

                                                                           

                                                                             

                                               Texto e Pesquisa:®Luiz Henrique Costa Gonçalves