Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind chords

Song: If You Could Read My Mind
Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
Tab: Todd Migchelbrink tmigchel@riverdale.k12.or.us

Capo 2

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

G            Gadd9If you could read my mind love
Dm/FWhat a tale my thoughts could tell
G            Gadd9Just like an old time movie
Dm/F'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G           Gadd9     CIn a castle dark or a fortress strong
     D		    EmWith chains upon my feet
    C		       GYou know that ghost is me
    C            G/BAnd I will never be set free
   Am7sus        D		       G      Gadd9As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

G          Gadd9If I could read your mind love
Dm/FWhat a tale your thoughts could tell
G           Gadd9Just like a paperback novel
Dm/FThe kind that drugstores sell
G                  Gadd9             CWhen you reach the part where the heartaches come
    D		  EmThe hero would be me
    C            GBut heroes often fail
    C                   G/BAnd 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       CI'd walk away like a movie star
	 D		       EmWho gets burned in a three-way script
C            GEnter number two
 
  C              G/BA movie queen to play the scene
   Am7sus           D  	         EmOf bringing all the good things out in me
        C                  GBut for now love, let's be real
    C                   G/BI never thought I could feel this way 
         Am7sus            DAnd I've got to say that I just don't get it
C                  G/BI 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            Gadd9If you could read my mind love
Dm/FWhat a tale my thoughts could tell
G            Gadd9Just like an old time movie
Dm/F'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G           Gadd9     CIn a castle dark or a fortress strong
     D		    EmWith chains upon my feet
    C              GBut stories always end
    C             G/BAnd if you read between the lines
       Am7sus             D              EmYou'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
    C                 GThe feelings that you lack
  C                     G/BI never thought I could feel this way
         Am7sus            DAnd I've got to say that I just don't get it
C                  G/BI don't know where we went wrong
        Am7sus
But the feeling's gone
      D                 G    Gadd9    Dm/F    GAnd I just can't get it back