If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot
If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot
If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot
IF YOU COULD And you won’t read that book again
Am D
READ MY MIND Because the ending’s just too hard to
G. Lightfoot (G)
From the album Sit Down Young Stranger take.
GORDON LIGHTFOOT/Reprise (1970)
Filler
*Capo on 2nd fret.
G--Gadd9--F-----; (2x)
Intro
G--Gadd9--; (2x) G G7 C
I’d walk away like a movie star
G Gadd9 D Em
If you could read my mind, love Who gets burned in a three-way script
F(6) C G
What a tale my thoughts could tell Enter number two
G Gadd9 C G/B
Just like an old time movie A movie queen to play the scene
F(6) Am D
‘Bout a ghost from a wishin’ well Of bringing all the good things out in
G G7 C Em
In a castle dark or a fortress strong me
D Em C G
With chains upon my feet But for now, love, let’s be real
C G C G/B
You know that ghost is me I never thought I could (act/feel) this
C G/B way
And I will never be set free Am D
Am D And I’ve got to say that I just don’t get it
As long as I’m a ghost, you can C G/B
G--Gadd9-- I don’t know where we went wrong
see. Am D
But the feelin’s gone and I just can’t get
G Gadd9 (Intro)
If I could read your mind, love it back.
F(6) (Repeat 1st verse, using G for Gadd9 & F for
What a tale your thoughts could tell F(6), except last 3 lines)
G C G
Just like a paperback novel The story always ends
F(6) C G/B
The kind the drugstore sells And if you read between the lines
G G7 Am D
When you reach the part where the You’ll know that I’m just trying to
C Em
heartaches come understand
D Em C G
The hero would be me The feelings that you lack.
C G (Repeat last 4 lines of 3rd verse except last
But heroes often fail word)
G--Gadd9--F----G
…back.