If You Could Read My Mind Chords & Lyrics by Gordon Lightfoot

If You Could Read My Mind

guitar chords lyrics

Gordon Lightfoot

Song: If You Could Read My Mind
Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
Tab: Todd Migchelbrink [email protected]

Capo 2

Chords:
Gadd9: 320203 Dm/F: 100230 Am7sus: 002030 G/B: 020030

G Gadd9

If you could read my mind love
Dm/F
What a tale my thoughts could tell
G Gadd9
Just like an old time movie
Dm/F
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G Gadd9 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
Am7sus D G Gadd9
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

G Gadd9
If I could read your mind love
Dm/F
What a tale your thoughts could tell
G Gadd9
Just like a paperback novel
Dm/F
The kind that drugstores sell
G Gadd9 C
When you reach the part where the heartaches 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
Am7sus D (G Gadd9 Dm/F x 2)
Because the ending's just too hard to take

G Gadd9 C
I'd walk away like a movie star
D Em
Who gets burned in a three-way script
C G
Enter number two

C G/B
A movie queen to play the scene
Am7sus 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 feel this way
Am7sus D
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
C G/B
I don't know where we went wrong
Am7sus D (G Gadd9 x2)
But the feeling's gone and I just can�t get it back

G Gadd9
If you could read my mind love
Dm/F
What a tale my thoughts could tell
G Gadd9
Just like an old time movie
Dm/F
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G Gadd9 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 between the lines
Am7sus D Em
You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
C G
The feelings that you lack
C G/B
I never thought I could feel this way
Am7sus D
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
C G/B
I don't know where we went wrong
Am7sus
But the feeling's gone
D G Gadd9 Dm/F G
And I just can't get it back