Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind Love chords

If You Could Read My Mind:Gordon Lightfoot.
#5 in 1970.

INTRO: A A9 A A9

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

#2.
A                               Em6/AIf I could read your mind love, what a tale your thoughts could tell.
A                                Em6/AJust like a paperback novel, the kind that the drugstore sells.
A                  A9             D                    E             F#mWhen you reach the part where the heartaches come, the hero would be me.
    D            ABut heroes often fail.
    D                   A/B           B7sus              E                AAnd 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#mI'd walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three way script.
D            A      D              A/B               B7susEnter number two..a movie queen to play the scene of bringing all the
E                  F#mgood things out in me.
        D                   ABut for now, love, let's be real.
  D                     A/B                    B7sus             EI never thought I could act this way, and I've got to say that I just 

don't get it.
D                  A/B                   B7sus                EI don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone and I just
             Acan't get it back.

#3.
A                               Em6/AIf you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell.
A                            Em6/AJust like an old time movie, about a ghost from a wishing well.
A           A9         D                     E              F#mIn a castle dark, or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet.
    D              ABut stories always end.
    D             A/B                     B7sus              EAnd if you read between the lines, you'll know that I'm just trying
        F#m        D                 Ato understand, the feelings that you lack.
  D                     A/B                  B7susI never thought I could feel this way, and I got to say that
  EI 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  Aand I just can't get it back.


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