Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind Love

if you could read my mind : gordon lightfoot .
#5 in 1970 .

intro : A A9 A A9

#1 .
A Em6/A
if you could read my mind love , what a tale my thoughts could tell .
A Em6/A
just like an old time movie , about a ghost from a wishing well .
A A9 D E F#m
in a castle dark , or a fortress strong , with chains upon my feet .
D A
you know that ghost is me .
D A/B B7sus E A
and i will never be set free as long as i’m a ghost that you can’t see .

#2 .
A Em6/A
if i could read your mind love , what a tale your thoughts could tell .
A Em6/A
just like a paperback novel , the kind that the drugstore sells .
A A9 D E F#m
when you reach the part where the heartaches come , the hero would be me .
D A
but heroes often fail .
D A/B B7sus E A
and you won’t read that book again , because the ending’s just too hard to take .

( interlude : ) A Em6/A ( x2 )

chorus :
A A9 D E F#m
i’d walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three way script .
D A D A/B B7sus
enter number two . . a movie queen to play the scene of bringing all the
E F#m
good things out in me .
D A
but for now , love , let’s be real .
D A/B B7sus E
i never thought i could act this way , and i’ve got to say that i just

don’t get it .
D A/B B7sus E
i don’t know where we went wrong but the feeling’s gone and i just
A
can’t get it back .

#3 .
A Em6/A
if you could read my mind love , what a tale my thoughts could tell .
A Em6/A
just like an old time movie , about a ghost from a wishing well .
A A9 D E F#m
in a castle dark , or a fortress strong , with chains upon my feet .
D A
but stories always end .
D A/B B7sus E
and if you read between the lines , you’ll know that i’m just trying
F#m D A
to understand , the feelings that you lack .
D A/B B7sus
i never thought i could feel this way , and i got to say that
E
i just don’t get it .
D A/B B7sus
i don’t know where we went wrong but the feeling’s gone
E A A9 Em6/A A
and i just can’t get it back .

a seventies smash from kraziekhat .