Here is the 28th set of sayings, poems or songs. This is a song: Gentle on my Mind.

This song in keeping with Joyce’s (PaGrandma’s) column of jokes and witticisms that was on this forum.

I filled in for her for a week and my columns had a lot of sayings and poems.
The person who initiated the column was Joyce, who was really nice. At one time she was a radio announcer in Manhattan. Her career as an artist included magazine and book illustration, commercial art, and sculpture, as noted in her obit sent to the website by one of her sons.

Her last column was on May 1, 2018. She passed away Dec. 19, 2018, at 83, according to her obit.

Gentle on My Mind
Song by Glen Campbell

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 shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
That keeps you in the backroads
By the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
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 backroads
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 junkyards 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 tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin'
Cracklin' caldron in some train yard
My beard a roughening coal pile,
And a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands 'round the tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're wavin’ from the backroads
By the rivers of my memories
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind

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Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: John Hartford
Gentle on My Mind lyrics 1967 © Sony/atv Melody, Swing Beat Songs
"Gentle on My Mind" won four Grammy Awards in 1968.

House of the Risen Sun
- Animals Version:

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk

Oh mothers tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun

Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain

Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

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Weikipedia says:
-------- The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band The Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and in the US and Canada. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the "first folk rock hit."