Gordon Lightfoot — If You Could Read My Mind

Capo 2  

Intro: G  Gadd9  G  Gadd9  

G Gadd9
If you could read my mind love  
Dm6
What a tale my thoughts could tell  
G  Gadd9
Just like an old time movie  
Dm6
'Bout a ghost from a wishing well  
G  C
In a castle dark or a fortress strong  
D  Em
With chains upon my feet,  
C  G
You know that ghost is me  
C  G/B
And I will never be set free  
Am7  D  G  Gadd9
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see 
 
G  Gadd9
If I could read your mind love,  
Dm6
what a tale your thoughts could tell  
G  Gadd9
Just like a paperback novel, 
Dm6
the kind the drugstores sell  
G  C
When you reach the part where the heartache come  
D  Em
The hero would be me 
C  G
But heroes often fail  
C  G/B
And you won't read that book again  
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be cause the ending's just too hard to take  

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G  Gadd9  C
I'd walk a way like a movie star  
D  Em  C  G
Who gets burned in a three way script, enter number two  
C  G/B
А movie queen to play the scene  
Am7  D  Em
Of bringing all the good things out in me  
C  G
But for now love, let's be real  
C  G/B
I never thought I could act this way  
Am7  D
And I've got to say that I just don't get it  
C  G/B  Am7
I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone  
D  G  Gadd9  G  Gadd9
And I just can't get it back 

G  Gadd9
If you could read my mind love,  
Dm6
what a tale my thoughts could tell  
G  Gadd9
Just like an old time movie,  
Dm6  
'bout a ghost from a wishing well  
G  C
In a castle dark or a fortress strong 
D  Em
with chains upon my feet 
C  G
But stories always end  
C  G/B
And if you read be tween the lines 
Am7  D  Em
you'll know that I'm just trying to understand  
C  G
The feelings that you lack  
C  G/B
I never thought I could feel this way  
Am7  D
And I've got to say that I just don't get it  
C  G/B  Am7
I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone  
D  G  Gadd9  Dm6  G
And I just can't get it back